make release of 5.0 on 4.8

Jay jayed at jayed.com
Sat Apr 12 04:26:35 PDT 2003


On Sat 12 Apr 2003, thus spake Kris Kennaway:
> I assume that's not supported, for the reason you suggest (chroot into
> a directory populated by 5.0 binaries cannot work on 4.x).

I would never have thought that it would have worked except for the
sentence in the release notes that said: "It is now possible to make
releases of FreeBSD 5-CURRENT on a FreeBSD 4-STABLE host and vice
versa."  http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/relnotes-i386.html#AEN4441

> 'make world' will work fine.

Thanks!

-- 
Jay.


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