On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 01:47:25PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 12:11:51PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Max Khon
>writes:
> > The old /usr/bin/install will fail right after new libutil gets installed.
> > But at this point, we will already have new libc in /usr/lib.
>
> No. libutil is a prerequisite for some libraries, so it is installed
> before libc.
>
> > So, if the installworld fails, we need to install new "install" with itself:
>
> After first installing the new libc. Other things can easilty break if
> prerequisites are not installed in the correct order. There may be no
> correct order for the current building scheme (there are too many old
> utilities which may be corrupted by installing new shared libraries).
>
> > cd src/usr.bin/xinstall && make install
>INSTALL=/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall/xinstall
>
> Installing the xinstall built by buildworld, with itself, would be safe.
> Similarly for the new libc -- install it using the new xinstall using
> something like
>
> cd /usr/src/libc
> MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/somehwere INSTALL=/somehwere/.../xinstall install
>
> Simpler method: build and install the host xinstall static (NOSHARED=yes)
> before running installworld. It's too late to do this after installworld
> corrupts the host's includes and libutil.a.
>
But this will not work, since at this point we will have old libraries :-)
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