On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2015-03-14, Harald Dunkel <ha...@afaics.de> wrote: > > > > Agreed. But release(8) doesn't make any assumptions about > > the base system, AFAICS. Using 5.6 stable to checkout and > > build OPENBSD_5_7_BASE appears reasonable. > > Sorry it isn't. > > If you have to move forwards from 5.6 then you'll need to pay attention > to various notes in http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html, in particular > the static PIE change. > This is a very helpful pointer. I highly appreciate this. > I think all the documentation we have about building says that you > should update to a recent snapshot first. But of course snapshots have > now moved beyond 5.7 so unless you have a slightly older snap, you're > at least in "unsupported" territory. > Been there for 5.6. Thanx very much. Regards Harri
