On Sun, 30 Jun 2002, Doug Barton wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > I've just finished going thru another medical session, this one took about > > 5 months, and because of the extended time spent away, I'm running 4.5 > > (I've been running current since 1.1, this feels really odd). I need > > a little bit of help (or advice, maybe) to get me back to current. > > Glad to hear you're feeling better. :) The bad news is that this is a > really terrible time to upgrade to -current. The KSE mark III update > just went in, so things are very unstable right now.
Clearing out about 50,000 old mails today ... need to update myself. Much thanks for the heads-up. I'm OK with instability, I'm used to that, as long as it works at least a bit. > > I just finished cvsupping, and the main sources built just fine. I > > installed a new config (static, the libs are now too old) and fixed all > > the changes in my config file, so now my kernel file configs .... but it > > doesn't build (breaks in 'make depend', I think in genassym). I'm > > guessing that this is only one of a string of incompatibilities, in > > jumping from 4.5 back to current. > > At this point, the only way to build -current on a -stable system is > make buildworld; make buildkernel. Make sure that KERNCONF is defined in > /etc/make.conf. > > You'll probably want to read -current and cvs-all for a while before > you finish the upgrade though.... > > HTH, > > Doug > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
