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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:34:53 -0700
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        jon@cgi.norcom2000.com
Cc:        Aaron Hughes <root@bind.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Upgrade to current from 3.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20000229133453.A24432@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20000229142932.A5471@cgi.norcom2000.com>; from jon@cgi.norcom2000.com on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 02:29:32PM -0600
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002291522310.78392-100000@user1.bind.com> <20000229142932.A5471@cgi.norcom2000.com>

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On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 14:29:32 -0600, jon@cgi.norcom2000.com wrote:
> I had the *exact* same error a minute ago.. upgrading from 3.2-RELEASE, I tried upgrading my texinfo from 3.12 to 4.0 but that didn't do anything.
> 
> :On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 03:25:38PM -0500, Aaron Hughes wrote:
> > 
> > I cvsup upgraded my /src dir to 'release=cvs tag=.' which I believe to be
> > 4.0-CURRENT.
> > 
> > I successfully completed a 'make -j10 buildworld', however, when I ran
> > make -j10 installworld' I received the following error:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > ===> lib/libcom_err/doc
> > install-info --quiet  --defsection="Programming & development
> > tools."  --defentry="* libcom_err: (com_err).        A Common Error
> > Description Library for UNIX."  com_err.info /usr/share/info/dir
> > install-info: unrecognized option `--defsection=Programming & development
> > tools.'
> >         Try `install-info --help' for a complete list of options.
> > *** Error code 1
> > 1 error
> > *** Error code 2
> > 1 error
> > *** Error code 2
> > 1 error
> > *** Error code 2
> > 1 error
> > *** Error code 2
> > 1 error
> > *** Error code 2
> > 1 error
> > *** Error code 2
> > 


You both need to read src/UPDATING (down near the bottom), which tells
you to first do:

make -DNOINFO installworld
and then:
make installworld

I've upgraded 3 machines from -stable to -current in the past few days
using that procedure, and it worked fine.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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