Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 00:17:48 -0400 From: Theorem <theorem21@gmail.com> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Make is broken! How to fix? Message-ID: <463810EC.4070108@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070502034402.2171313C455@mx1.freebsd.org> References: <20070502015352.12C1013C45D@mx1.freebsd.org> <004701c78c5d$83275a70$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20070502020814.A801113C455@mx1.freebsd.org> <4637F691.7030809@u.washington.edu> <20070502034402.2171313C455@mx1.freebsd.org>
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W. D. wrote:
> At 21:25 5/1/2007, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> W. D. wrote:
>>> At 20:59 5/1/2007, Matt Emmerton wrote:
>>>> usw2# cd make++
>>>> usw2# ls -lt
>>>> total 5
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1221 May 1 18:35 Makefile
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 190 May 1 18:35 distinfo
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 643 May 1 18:35 pkg-plist
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 602 Oct 17 2004 pkg-descr
>>>> usw2# make install
>>>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5460: Malformed conditional
>>>> (defined(USE_RCORDER) || defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES")
>>>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5470: Malformed conditional
>>>> (defined(USE_RC_SUBR) && ${USE_RC_SUBR:U} != "YES")
>>>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5481: if-less endif
>>>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5481: Need an operator
>>>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5958: if-less endif
>>>> "/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk", line 5958: Need an operator
>>>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>>>>
>>>> FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE
>>>>
>>>> Just ran cvsup. Any ideas?
>>>> ------
>>>>
>>>> The ports collection is only guaranteed to work on the current release of
>>>> FreeBSD, which is 6.2.
>>>> You're running 4.4-REL, which is fairly old (~5.5 years -- Sep/2001) and you
>>>> should consider upgrading.
>>> How do I do that without killing this production server?
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Matt Emmerton
>> W.D.,
>> You can't unfortunately. The only way to go about this is plan out a
>> date when you can take down the server for approximately 1-5 hours
>> (comfortably) depending on what you need to compile / install, and the
>> speed of the machine.
>> Another option (not really encouraged, but available), is to take
>> cvsup, sync to the most current 5.5 / 6.2 tree, and compile, then take
>> down your machine quickly into single-user mode while installing the new
>> kernel / world. The process is in gross detail here:
>> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html>.
>>
>> Also, did you know that your mail address probably is getting marked as
>> spam by the majority of the users on this list running anti-spam software?
>
> Why? What anti-spam methods are you using?
>
>> Mark,
>> That's not true. The ports collection is supposed to work for all
>> versions of FreeBSD which are supported, which includes 5.x.
>>
>> -Garrett
Well, you could also roll back the port for 'make' via cvsup to a point where
it does compile, but 4.4 is ancient. I think it's time to bite the bullet and
upgrade.
I suggest going to at least 4.11 first. Then *maybe* a jump to 5.x , followed
by a jump to 6.x.
If this is production I'd build out a 6.2 version on another machine, throw the
software from box A onto Box B , then swap them quickly ( maybe just the HDDs
even!), downtime would be almost nothing and you can run this "test" to work out
any kinks along the way.
If that's not an option with a second machine then a staged upgrade to the
latest of the major revisions ( 4.4 -> 4.11 , 4.11 -> 5.5 , 5.5 -> 6.2 ) The
three staged approach should creep in the changes slowly enough so you can
address problems along the way should there be any issues. A straight jump from
4.4 -> 6.2 probably won't work due to the major changes along the way (ACLs have
been introduced, standard locations for various system utils have moved , etc..
). You will probably want a settling period for each of the staged approach,
say , 3 - 5 days after each one ?
Watch out for ISA cards if you have any, I attempted a jump from 4.11 -> 5.1
with problems :(
Good luck,
Theorem
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