Problems with 5.x

[Matt Emmerton]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:18:16PM -0400, Matt Emmerton wrote:

> > - dmesg output from 4.11 (or 4.10)
>
> Don't have it anymore.
>
> > - describe in detail your buildworld problems (and any other problems),
> > specifically any error messages you might get.
>
> Basically, it konks out immediately while trying to rebuild 'make' because
> of missing system headers.  Probably a caveat with trying to build 5.x on
a
> 4.x machine but I didn't see anything in special instructions (UPDATING)
or
> on the web about this.

Without further detailed information about the nature of the problem
the best candidate is that you have a local configuration problem of
some kind on your system (e.g. invalid CFLAGS or other settings,
corrupted source tree, extra non-system headers incorrectly installed
in /usr/include, etc).  If you want more help, please provide more
details about what precisely you are doing and what precisely happens
as a result.

Kris

----

Perhaps re-reading my original message would be in order.  I only did the
buildword as a LAST RESORT, because I couldn't get the CD sets of 5.[234] to
do anything useful.  I gave precise descriptions of what happened on 5.[234]
and can provide more details if requested, but so far everyone is focusing
on the buildworld which is not my concern.  I'm not going to retry that
effort until someone can convince me that the 5.[234] boot images are
helplessly broken on my machine and the only way to boot 5.x is to build
from source with some kind of patches.

Anyone knowledgeable about the BTX/boot loader changes that occured between
4.10 and 5.4 should be able to help me out.
I eagerly await someone to speak up on this topic.  Any further
correspondence about fixing my broken buildworld will be ignored.

--
Matt Emmerton