Error message while updating src for FreeBSD 9 current

[Ralph Ellis]

Niclas Zeising wrote:
> On 2010-09-23 04:29, Ralph Ellis wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I recently upgraded my FreeBSD 8.1 installation to FreeBSD 9 current via
>> buildworld and buildkernel. I was able to one general ports, src and doc
>> update by cvsup but now I am getting the following error message when I
>> do a src update.
>>
>>> cvsup srcsupfile
>>> Connected to cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
>>> Updating collection src-all/cvs
>>> Edit src/bin/ps/extern.h
>>> Illegal instruction
>>>
>> I am new to the mailing list. Is this a known error?
>> Is this an error to do with the source tree or an issue on my end?
>>
>> Just for reference, the contents of my supfile are
>>
>> *default tag=.
>> *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
>> *default prefix=/usr
>> *default base=/var/db
>> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
>> src-all
>> ports-all
>> doc-all
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your assistance,
>> Ralph Ellis
>> ralphellis1 at netscape.ca
>>
>
> Are you using cvsup or csup? Have you recompiled cvsup in case you use 
> that? What's in your make.conf file?
> Illegal instruction is usually because the program is compiled for 
> another CPU than what it's running on. It can also be that syscalls 
> has changed, but then it usually complains about that.
> When doing a major version upgrade, you usually have to recompile all 
> ports.
> Hope this helps!
> //Niclas

I am using cvsup. I had recompiled my VirtualBox port but I had not 
finished recompiling the other major ports. Thanks for the suggestion.
My make.conf is deliberately very plain jane with no special conditions 
or comments.
Thanks
Ralph Ellis
ralphellis1 at netscape.ca