From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 5 3:39:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66CE237B847; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e65Ad6g34872; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:39:06 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200007051039.e65Ad6g34872@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 3-STABLE to 4-STABLE from sources In-Reply-To: <200007051012.DAA25776@freefall.freebsd.org> from "jkoshy@FreeBSD.org" at "Jul 5, 2000 03:12:17 am" To: jkoshy@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 12:39:05 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > jh> Have you tried the way that is described in /usr/src/UPDATING? It did > jh> work for me a few weeks back. I don't know if it has been broken after > jh> that. > > I hadn't realized that /usr/src/UPDATING was useful on the 4-STABLE branch. > It isn't very useful on 3-STABLE. I used the version in 4-STABLE as reference during the upgrade. > > No, I didn't follow the procedure in /usr/src/UPDATING. I did a `make > world' and then had to rescue the system. > > The procedure in /usr/src/UPDATING seems more comprehensive, and also > somewhat more terse that what I had posted. If the `make installworld' > step there uses the newly built GCC (v2.95.2) then it should work correctly. > > The use of `__func__', the troublesome GCCism, brought into the 4-STABLE > branch of "src/sys/i386/i386/in_cksum.c" on 2000/05/05. Was your upgrade > done after this date? No, but I suspect that part at least should still work, because the "make buildkernel KERNEL=" target in /usr/src/Makefile and friends use the newly built compiler to build the kernel, so it should succeed. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message