From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 20 6:16:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E33B37B648 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 06:16:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12t95o-0003TW-00; Sat, 20 May 2000 15:15:00 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Brooks Davis Cc: MikeM , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: error making world: stage 1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 13:28:21 MST." <20000519132821.A3950@orion.ac.hmc.edu> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 15:15:00 +0200 Message-ID: <13361.958828500@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 May 2000 13:28:21 MST, Brooks Davis wrote: > > I am trying to upgrade from 3.2 Release to -current > > but the build fails in the bootstrap stage. > > You can't do that in one step. You need to upgrade to 3.4-STABLE first. > Then follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING to upgrade to 4.0. > Finaly, you can then upgrade to -current. Multiple major version jumps > are not supported and are unlikely to work. While this is sensible advise, since it looks like the original poster is doing this more for the experience than for practical purposes, it's always worth mentioning to folks that the binary upgrade option is both available and simple. :-) Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message