On Monday 05 December 2005 09:51, Anthony Philipp wrote: > On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:41:15AM +0000, > > Benjamin Sobotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey! > > > > You might want to have a look at > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html > > > > especially subsection > > > > 20.4.16.6. What do I do if something goes wrong > > I will try this and get back do you. Thanks for the tip. > > > Further, I believe that you run mergemaster -p before make installworld. > > Not buildworld, after all I believe buildworld has to finish so you know > > what to merge in the first place. So if buildworld fails, that has > > nothing to do with mergemaster. > > I had looked at the handbook and saw this: > > Note: There are a few rare cases when an extra run of mergemaster -p is > needed before the buildworld step. These are described in UPDATING. In > general, though, you can safely omit this step if you are not updating > across one or more major FreeBSD versions. > > This is the only reason I tried it. > > Thanks for the response! > > Anthony
Interesting! I didn't know that. Thank you! > > > On Monday 05 December 2005 09:11, Anthony Philipp wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am trying to upgrade from 5.4 to 6.0. I ran cvsup and tried a make > > > buildworld, but it failed. So I checked out the handbook and noticed > > > that it mentioned I should run a mergemaster -p first. So I did that > > > > > > and I still failed. Here are the last few lines: > > > : undefined reference to `Buf_AddByte' > > > > > > var.o(.text+0x2b5e): In function `Var_Dump': > > > : undefined reference to `Buf_Data' > > > > > > var.o(.text+0x2ba2): In function `Var_Dump': > > > : undefined reference to `Buf_Data' > > > > > > var.o(.text+0x2c31): In function `Var_Print': > > > : undefined reference to `Buf_Peel' > > > > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/make. > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > > *** Error code 1 > > > > > > Stop in /usr/src. > > > > > > I've searched the archives and couldn't find anything relating to > > > this, but hopefully someone knows the answer. Also I have have done > > > minor version changes before, but never a major one, so maybe I am > > > just missing a key step. > > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > Anthony Philipp > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"