Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:33:50 -0500 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: xphilius@yahoo.com, Ronnie Clark <Ronj_clark@yahoo.com>, kstewart@owt.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best upgrade path from 4.1 Release to 4.4 Release, via CVsup if possible Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011022093350.00f12f38@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <20011022140536.88219.qmail@web11807.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3BD1815F.1DA92089@yahoo.com>
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When doing an update/upgrade, be sure to read the "UPDATING" file for changes hat can apply separately to the system or the kernel. The kernel is affected largely from treatment of the hardware config which may have worked before, but not now without some tweaking at the behest of the UPDATING file.... At 07:05 AM 10.22.2001 -0700, X Philius wrote: >Ronnie, >I'm not sure if that would fix the problem or not. The error I was getting was during the make >buildworld stage, compiling /gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld. The specific Stop error I was getting had >something to do with an undefined reference to 'basename'. I naver got to the point of making my >custom kernel. On Kent's suggestion I tried the process with 4.2 Release, and 4 Stable, instead of >4.4 Release, and the buildworld process went smoothly. Course, now I have to decide whether to be >cautious and install 4.4 Release, or start tracking Stable. I think I will probably chicken out >and use sysinstall to upgrade to 4.4 Release on my real server. Odd that you did not run into the >same Stops running make buildworld though, I wonder if there is something else going on with my >system. > >Jason > >PS- Don' t know if you caught it above, but the buildworld went fine upgrading to 4 Stable, so >your hint about the bootstrapping having changed since 4.4 Release seems correct. I'll be >completeing the upgrade tonight on my dev server. I'll probably be posting some questions about >going with 4 Stable versus 4.4 release. My instinct tells me that "Stable" is probably least >stable immediately after a major release. I'd think the developers would make lots of changes >right after a release. > >--- Ronnie Clark <Ronj_clark@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Guys, I have been seeing your postings, but for some reason, I cannot >> respond with my other mail account. >> >> Any way, I just upgraded my 4.1 Release box last week. So I will see if >> I can help. >> First, at what step are you getting the errors? The reason I ask is that >> the way I had to do it was to cvsup, then immediately clean out >> /usr/obj, then do make world. Where my problem occurred was in the >> KERCONF step. My resoloution was to revert back to the GENERIC kernel. >> >> I hope this helps. If you have any other questions, please let me know. >> >> R Clark >> > >> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/x-pkcs7-signature name=smime.p7s > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. >http://personals.yahoo.com > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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