Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic

[Vizion]

On Tuesday 06 December 2005 14:15,  the author Vizion contributed to the 
dialogue on-
 Re: Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic: 

>On Tuesday 06 December 2005 13:28,  the author Kris Kennaway contributed to
>the dialogue on-
>
> Re: Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic:
>>On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:20:44PM -0800, Vizion wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 11:47,  the author Vizion contributed to the
>>> dialogue which was on-
>>>  Re: Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure in libkrb5 but is currently:
>>> Upgrading 5.3 > 6.0 buildworld failure now in libmagic
>>>
>>> >On Tuesday 06 December 2005 04:00,  the author Ruslan Ermilov
>>> > contributed to the dialogue on-
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> >>The example of setting up ccache in /etc/make.conf is just plain
>>> >>wrong.  It shouldn't be hardcoding CC to "/usr/bin/cc", similarly
>>> >>for CXX.  Comment out the ccache stuff completely in /etc/make.conf
>>> >>(or at least the last "else" part), make sure your PATH doesn't
>>> >>include the ccache path, and try again with an empty /usr/obj.
>>> >>Please report back if it succeeded (it should).  Please send your
>>> >>complaints to the ccache port MAINTAINER as he did not respond to
>>> >>my email explaining the problem, and I'm getting really tired of
>>> >>explaining this for the Nth time.
>>> >
>>> >Thanks very much - I am building right now --after deinstalling ccache,
>>> > make cleandir x3 and an empty /usr/obj. I will post the results here
>>>
>>> Well certainly made a difference but now it fails in magic
>>
>>Update to 5.4 before trying to update to 6.0.
>
>Thank you Kris
>
>You are a mine of information as always.
>
>I do wish there was some consistency in updating about this.. I asked on
> this list whether I needed to upgrade to 5.4 before mocing to 6 and the
> advice suggested that I could go straight from 5.3 to 6 but there we are --
> guess that's life <chuckles>
>
>Presumably it would be safest to delete /usr/src/* and cvsup with
> tag=RELENG_5
>
>Thanks again
>
>david

Just an additional question if some one has time to answer.

Should I upgrade my ports from 5.4 as well prior to moving to 6?

I have a large ports installation on the system I am upgrading.

david

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