From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 16:53:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE7F16A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:53:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E673E43D46 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:53:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsdnews@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so45005wri for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:53:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=hyX8J0Gxl1y7QWs5/UsCZDCJb6vIX/ramLjWxR7G5nRxY10jwrBfGPNlxNxYoANRQU/VVtXaxpAEWZzwvl/O3+7OCO6E22vTiT18ms90W1qnkM/zSZWPo0awIyYrJwyrzpJ1H/w4/o3bg3qa0arPFtohqglfn3ZRg9R+ZdrCGBk= Received: by 10.54.31.64 with SMTP id e64mr125688wre; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.50.38 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:53:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8292450b0411190853628b5a82@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:53:13 -0600 From: CHris Rich To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20041119164638.GA1129@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8292450b041119082742f2711b@mail.gmail.com> <20041119164638.GA1129@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nothing works right when i try it, buildkernel problems.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: CHris Rich List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 16:53:14 -0000 On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:46:38 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-11-19 10:27, CHris Rich wrote: > > I'm trying to upgrade from 5.3RC1 to 5.3-RELEASE i cvsupped the src > > following the instructions given by Adam Smith(?) in a recent thread. > > I've read the handbook pages and some other things on the web on > > upgrading your system > > > > buildworld completes no problem, but when i try do a make buildkernel > > KERNCONF=GENERIC i get the following error: > > Hmmm. Are you sure you are running 5.3RC1? > > AFAIK, perl5 isn't used in any part of the build these days, since > it's not part of the base system. In fact, a recent buildworld and > buildkernel cycle for which I have a logfile contains no perl > invocations. > > > I've tried going into ports to install perl5 but there is perl5.8 > > there as well and not sure which one would be better. > > The latest should be fine. Ports that need an older perl version will > take care of this behind the scenes. > > This is my uname -a FreeBSD arwen.localhost.com 5.3-RC1 FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 #0: Mon Nov 24 18:31:21 CST 2003 Though I'm far from being a guru and am quite the newbie at most things so I'm going to try and install perl5.8 and see what happens THanks :)