Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:28:47 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: "Homerton Webmaster" <webmaster@homerton.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading from 2.1.0 Message-ID: <200007212028.OAA02524@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:38:41 BST." <000901bff2f7$74ce3c20$e2f799c3@corpex.net> References: <000901bff2f7$74ce3c20$e2f799c3@corpex.net>
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In message <000901bff2f7$74ce3c20$e2f799c3@corpex.net> "Homerton Webmaster" writes: : I've just found a 2.1.0 machine hidden away in a room. Is it possible to : upgrade this in a : single hop to 4.1RC or would I be better off just reinstalling from scratch? : : I've only done 2 or 3 updates from source and they have all been extremely : painless, : but I thought it might be useful for the experience? You might eb able to do that in one hope, however there are a number of things in the way at the moment. gprof (or was that groff) is written in c++ and the c++ compiler in 2.1.0 almost certainly will barf on it, and it is a "build tool" so it must be built before switching to the new compiler. Maybe a gcc port would fix this, but getting a modern gcc /usr/port to build on a 2.1.0 system might be difficult. You are more likely to be happier if you just do a fresh install and save all your config files and reconfigure everything. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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