Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 06:29:35 -0700 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> To: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is x-compiling 2.2 on a 3.x system supported? Message-ID: <200006211330.e5LDUG418054@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:54:29 %2B1000." <00Jun21.062523est.115224@border.alcanet.com.au>
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In message <00Jun21.062523est.115224@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy write s: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 13:52:58 +1000, Gregory Bond wrote: > > Is building 2.2.x world on 3.x supported? > > I'd be very surprised if it was. The 2.2 build process mostly > assumes that it is running on 2.2. > > My attempts to build 2.2.x on 4.x also died inside rtld. The > problems were a mixture of the changes to symbol mapping (the > '_' prepended to symbols in a.out but not ELF) and having the > rtld work during the build process - when it has to work with > the 4.x kernel. > > When I asked a similar question, Cy Schubert suggested running > buildworld inside a chroot'd 2.2 environment - and that worked > on a 4.x system (but I haven't gotten around to the installworld > part). Build the 2.2 kernel first, copy it to its root filesystem, then boot -s and installworld. I haven't tried it but I suspect that the process should be similar to the 3.4 -> 4.0 upgrade procedure +/- a glitch here or there. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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