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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:28:07 -0400
From:      Klaus Steden <klaus@compt.com>
To:        Scott Reese <sreese@codysbooks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems upgrading 3.5-STABLE to 4.x
Message-ID:  <20010809152807.D95706@cthulu.compt.com>
In-Reply-To: <00b701c120f2$2fd9ec70$1800a8c0@borges>; from sreese@codysbooks.com on Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:41:49AM -0700
References:  <20010808232726.P95706@cthulu.compt.com> <00b701c120f2$2fd9ec70$1800a8c0@borges>

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> Klaus,
> 
> I just went through this a couple of days ago myself.  I found that the best
> way to go is to do the upgrade in increments (I was upgrading from 3.2).
> After much trial and error, I finally found a way that works.  I went from
> 3.2-RELEASE => 3.5-STABLE => 4.1-RELEASE=> 4.3-RELEASE.  I tried going
> directliy from 3.2 to 4.3, but to no avail.  I tried going from 3.2 to
> 4.0...again, no luck....I went from 3.5 to 4.1 instead of 4.0 because
> upgrading to 4.0 resulted in build errors.  Quite a tricky business
> upgrading from the 3.x branch.  Anyway, I hope this helps somewhat.
> 
I found an alternate solution in one of the freebsd newsgroups.

What worked for me was cvsup'ing 3.5-STABLE source (including ports),
installing the gcc295 port, cvsup'ing to a 4.x-STABLE source, and doing
this:

export CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc295
export CXX=/usr/local/bin/gcc295
export CPP=/usr/local/bin/g++295

... then running 'make buildworld -DNOPERL'. Built without incident.

Hope this is useful to others in the same situation.

Klaus

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