Updating older 7.0 to newer sources, local buildworld problems

[Jason C. Wells]

Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote:
> 
> Thank you, i appreciate your time.
> At the bottom of the (messy) mail i sent there was the error i get from 
> building sources. I think it's the same error, no matter what version of 
> sources i download.
> Could it have any relations to any compiler version upgrades done in 7.0 
> (not by me but by freebsd project)?

How many versions of the source code did you try?  In your case I 
recommend only 7.0-RELEASE.  The terminology in your email makes me 
skeptical that you have tried what I recommended.

Did you run cvsup?  I highly recommend using cvsup to update your 
sources.  It's slick.  It's saves bandwidth.  Plus it's the way that 
just about everyone who runs FreeBSD maintains there system.  That means 
lot's of tech support.

If you are just downloading sources using FTP, or perhaps sysinstall, 
then I recommend deleting all of /usr/src and re-FTP-ing the sources.

I have never had a problem that could not be fixed by re-supping the 
sources.  On rare occasion a breakage will be introduced by the freebsd 
project or you might cvsup most, but not all of a change that is being 
implemented.  A re-sup has always worked for me.  A re-sup has always 
been the very first thing that people on -questions have recommended.

-RELEASES are never broken.  At least not that I can recall.

Try re-posting your question with the last twenty lines or so of your 
log file.  Perhaps someone else will pick it up.  They might be able to 
suss out the exact details of your problem.

Regards,
Jason