From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 17 9:16:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from extremis.demon.co.uk (extremis.demon.co.uk [194.222.242.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1097D37B7A4 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjvc@extremis.demon.co.uk) Received: (qmail 2689 invoked by uid 1010); 17 Feb 2000 16:48:59 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:48:59 +0000 From: George Cox To: Tracey King Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world bummer Message-ID: <20000217164859.A2366@extremis.demon.co.uk> References: <38ABCF74.11384568@dircon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i In-Reply-To: <38ABCF74.11384568@dircon.co.uk>; from tp-king@dircon.co.uk on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:37:40AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17/02 10:37, Tracey King wrote: > Excuse me if I am asking a question that has been answered a thousand > times, I did try and search the mailing list archive but the search > engine is down. > > I am trying to upgrade my version of FreeBSD (2.5) to the stable 3 You mean 2.2.5 :-) > release, which I managed to do with the cvsup. I ran the make world > command from /usr/src directory, where things went a cropper. Ayup. Looks like it. This is a big jump, and you should really cvsup to RELENG_2 (2.2.8-STABLE) and make world there first, before going to 3.x Reading /usr/src/Makefile suggests that from 2.2.5 you might be able to get away with typing 'make upgrade' in /usr/src and letting it do its thing. > I'd be really grateful if anyone could help me. Well, let us know how you get on -- good luck! gjvc -- [gjvc] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message