Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:48:59 +0000 From: George Cox <gjvc@gjvc.com> To: Tracey King <tp-king@dircon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world bummer Message-ID: <20000217164859.A2366@extremis.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <38ABCF74.11384568@dircon.co.uk>; from tp-king@dircon.co.uk on Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 10:37:40AM %2B0000 References: <38ABCF74.11384568@dircon.co.uk>
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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] <gjvc@gjvc.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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