Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:01:17 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> 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: <00Jun22.070131est.115211@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200006211330.e5LDUG418054@cwsys.cwsent.com>; from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca on Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 06:29:35AM -0700 References: <00Jun21.062523est.115224@border.alcanet.com.au> <200006211330.e5LDUG418054@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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On 2000-Jun-21 06:29:35 -0700, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> wrote: >In message <00Jun21.062523est.115224@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter >Jeremy write >s: >> 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). Actually, what I wrote isn't quite true. I have successfully run the installworld inside my chroot'd tree. What I haven't done is install the result into the target machine, so I can't confirm that the resultant world is fully functional (though there were no glitches with the installworld, so I don't expect any problems). Since the target is running a custom, cut-down copy of 2.2 (due to severe lack of disk space), the final install is non-trivial. Thanks for that suggestion, BTW - I was going to wait until I knew it was fullt successful before thanking you, but it's taken a lot longer than I initially hoped. >Build the 2.2 kernel first, copy it to its root filesystem, then boot >-s and installworld. This will probably work with a 3.x world (later versions of 2.2 supported ELF executables), but the signal changes introduced last August(?) mean that you can't run a 4.x executable with an earlier kernel. Also, remember that mergemaster was a port in 2.x and 3.x. I'm not sure whether the recent base-system mergemaster will run on 2.x. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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