/usr/src 'make buildworld' problem

Björn König bkoenig at cs.tu-berlin.de
Wed Aug 17 10:50:15 GMT 2005


Shane James wrote:
> Well,
> 
> I did something quite stupid... I cvsuped to RELENG_5_0 Accidently... 
> managed to get all the way to 'make installworld' but when I rebooted 
> from single user mode it wouldn't boot my new kernel... so I booted 
> kernel.old (5.3-RELEASE) that's working fine... so... I've now cvsuped 
> to RELENG_5 and get this error.
> 
> So Essentially I'm trying to compile the kernel on a 5.3 kernel with 5.0 
> compilers :/

Consider a binary update. Throw in a CD-ROM, choose "Upgrade" and follow 
the instructions. I'm not sure whether sysinstall makes a backup of 
/etc, because this upgrade overwrites configuration files, passwd and so 
on. Pay attention ... well, too late. :-P

Björn


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