It was(sorry) from around 12th June 2012.
But I have another system with 8.2-RELEASE that I can upgrade to a commit
around 12th June 2012 and then try directly to 9-STABLE(or 8.3 first?) if
that would be helpful?


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Brooks Davis <bro...@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 09:10:59AM +0200, Olav Gr?n?s Gjerde wrote:
> > I have a weird problem while building the GENERIC 9-STABLE kernel. After
> > around 5 minutes of compile time, the process just hangs on same place.
> No
> > error. I've tried compiling different commits from this week with the
> same
> > result.
> >
> > The part in the buildkernel process that hangs is this:
> > MAKE=make sh /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh GENERIC
> > /usr/local/bin/svnversion
> > cc -c -O2 -frename-registers -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing  -std=c99 -g
> -Wall
> > -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes
> > -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual  -Wundef
> > -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-extensions  -Wmissing-include-dirs
> > -fdiagnostics-show-option   -nostdinc  -I. -I/usr/src/sys
> > -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/altq -D_KERNEL -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS
> -include
> > opt_global.h -fno-common -finline-limit=8000 --param
> inline-unit-growth=100
> > --param large-function-growth=1000  -fno-omit-frame-pointer
> -mcmodel=kernel
> > -mno-red-zone -mno-mmx -mno-sse -msoft-float
> > -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -ffreestanding -fstack-protector -Werror
> > vers.c
> > ctfconvert -L VERSION -g vers.o
> > linking kernel.debug
> > ctfmerge -L VERSION -g -o kernel.debug ............+ alot of *.o
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> In the DTrace commit message thread, you mentioned that you were
> upgrading from an old 8-STABLE to 9 when you got the hang.  Could you
> quantify how old that 8-STABLE was/is?  If it's pre-8.3 it would be
> really helpful if you could upgrade to 8.3 and test that.  If that works
> then I think a note in UPDATING would be sufficient as our historical
> policy has been to support upgrading to release X.Y from
> (X-1).<newest>.  If it turns out that we need to upgrade to 8.4 we may
> need to consider backing this out for a bit.
>
> -- Brooks
>
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