From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 21 7: 6:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9917437BE23 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id HAA15861; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:05:38 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda15859; Wed Jun 21 07:05:25 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id HAA25937; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpde25928; Wed Jun 21 07:05:07 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.10.2/8.9.1) id e5LDUG418054; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 06:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006211330.e5LDUG418054@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdR18040; Wed Jun 21 06:29:36 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: Peter Jeremy Cc: Gregory Bond , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is x-compiling 2.2 on a 3.x system supported? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 19:54:29 +1000." <00Jun21.062523est.115224@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 06:29:35 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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