Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 15:48:24 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An ELF upgrade story Message-ID: <199901130748.PAA69871@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:34:59 %2B1030." <XFMail.990113133459.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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"Daniel O'Connor" wrote: > > On 13-Jan-99 Garrett Wollman wrote: > > First, a bit of disclaimer: > > > > DON'T DO THIS. Really. I mean it. At a minimum, don't expect anyone > > to help you if you try and it doesn't work. > [ Story full of much potential pain ] > > > DON'T ANYONE ELSE TRY THIS. > > Hmm.. looks like you just used up your good luck quota for this year =) :-) Actually, a lot of people can probably get away with doing this, but they need to have enough clue to restart things when/if it blows up. I built a 3.0-elf machine in december by: - install 3.0-snap from earlier this year - moving elf libs to aout subdir and rerunning ldconfig - copying the ELF system binaries from another system (/bin, /usr/lib etc) - cursing and swearing at truncating /usr/lib/aout/libc.so.3.x which tar was using at the time. - moving libs elsewhere to a temporary path and using ldconfig on that. - recopied everything across. Some files failed due to text file busy. - then doing a 'make world' It actually worked. The reason I persivered was that it was a slow machine (486) with a small amount of ram (16MB) compared to what I was used to, and because I needed it in a hurry. The machine has since sat there quite happily for a couple of months and has never been rebooted since. There.. this is the other thing that YOU SHOULD NOT DO! :-) Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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