Re: 14.2-RELEASE buildworld failure

On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM Scott Bennett <bennett@sdf.org> wrote:

>      I have been trying in vain to upgrade from
>
> FreeBSD hellas 12.4-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 12.4-RELEASE-p2 #9
> releng/12.4-n235816-149768b65d61: Sat Feb 18 00:13:00 CST 2023
>  bennett@hellas:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/hellas  amd64
>
> to 14.2-RELEASE for some time now, but when I run "make buildworld" it
> fails
> during a linkedit step on complaints that it can't find a library that it
> wants.
> Here is an example of how it ends.
>

I didn't read the rest of your email after that last sentence above.
I could be wrong, but to upgrade a -RELEASE version, you don't need
buildworld and such. You need freebsd-update.
And you need to upgrade from 12.4 -> 13.x -> 14.x stepwise.
So you can start with:
1.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/freebsd-13-released-how-to-update-upgrade-freebsd-12-to-13/,
then proceed to
2. https://www.debugpoint.com/upgrade-to-freebsd-14/



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