Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 11:45:21 -0800 (PST) From: Charlie Roots <osiris2002@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE or CURRENT can COMPILE ! (update) Message-ID: <19990102194521.3290.rocketmail@send1e.yahoomail.com>
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Hi there, I sent an email some 10 days ago complaining about BuildWorld failures on CVSUPED code. If you were tracing that feed, here's my current situation. I tried to be conservative with the old system but it seemed not enough to get things working or the system to become clean. So after tring the suggestions that helpful users gave me, unfortunately the system was resisting the nice approach, and needed some frying ;-) So, I had a 2.2.2 CDROM, from there I manually copied the /bin and /src directories. I installed the /bin using its own install.sh script, and so did for the /src (after backing up the old (actually the more recent) /src) Then I did a make world in /src, and installed a news 2.2.2 kernel, now the system is clean but a backwards operating system is running. Since my original target was to establish a clean 3.0-current system, so I jumped to ftp.freebsd.org and got the 3.0-RELEASE /bin, /src, /proflib, and installed them also manually by their own install.sh scripts (after backing up the whole /src, and /obj of the installed 2.2.2 system in case I get stuck I should be able to recover the clean 2.2.2 system. So, I made a make world on the 3.0-RELEASE /src and all went well, after some strugling with the aout-to-elf and aou-to-elf install. Finally I get a booting 3.0-RELEASE, which can compile and update the entire system from SOURCE, this is called in FreeBSD terms (upgrading from source) and it really gives you a flexible and controllable system. Back to my greedy nature, I said ok now lets try the previously downloaded (CVSUPed) 3.0-CURRENT /src, and did a make world there, succefully. Now I have on problem. After I installed the 3.0-RELEASE system and thereafter my system is ELF by default, I personally prefer to be ELF since it is the future and aout is the past or at the best the dying present. I made sure the system is ELF by doing an edit in /etc/make.conf, and by checking /etc/objformat, and by initializing an environmental variable OBJFORMAT. (ENOUGH EAH ?) ok, now I also check the newly born binaries of the operating system, they are ELF, and any newly compiled binaries, they are ELF. I used an editor to open the binary and look for ELFFreeBSD string in the first few bytes of binary header. The problem: ------------ X windows got angry, and could not start saying that libX11.so.6.1 not found then it has bad magic ( 2 errors generated), also another libX... library (can't remember its name now) so I figured rebuilding the X from scratch on the EFL system would solve the problem, actually the whole source of X system was residing long ago on my system (version 6.331), so I gave it a try. Still the same error message. I browsed for the libs, I found an elf version of the X libraries in /usr/lib, and all newly born X binaries are ELF, so what's the problem. The Bigger Problem ------------------ The system won't boot with an ELF kernel, and only accepts the aout type, that is automatically generated during the upgrade (kernel.GENERIC), I tried to convince /etc/make to do this, and checked for the /boot/loader, and /boot.config no luck until now. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. == MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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