Building world in 5.x vs 4.x?

stan stanb at panix.com
Sun Dec 5 11:24:11 PST 2004


On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:20:41PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 12:08:34PM -0500, stan wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 05:37:18PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:28:47AM -0500, stan wrote:
> > > > I'm building a tets machine to explore 5.3 before tackling the job of
> > > > changing over a production machine from 4-STABLE.
> > > > 
> > > > What;s the equivelant set of steps in 5.x?
> > > 
> > > You do it exactly the same way in 5.x as in 4.x.
> > 
> > Thanks for the education :-)
> > 
> > I should have thought of thta.
> > 
> > Having said thta. would it not make sense to document this in
> > /usr/src/Makefile, like it is in the 4.x version of this file?
> 
> As far as I can tell it is documented in /usr/src/Makefile in both
> 4-stable and 5-stable, with exactly the same wording.
> What made you think it wasn't?
> 

Your not going to believe what a stupid user mistake this was:

cd /usr/src
less M*

and then failed to look at the name of the file that poped up :-(

Thanks for the help.

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