make buildworld fails from 5.4->6.0

[Benjamin Sobotta]

On Monday 05 December 2005 09:51, Anthony Philipp wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:41:15AM +0000,
>
> Benjamin Sobotta <mayday at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Hey!
> >
> > You might want to have a look at
> >
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> >
> > especially subsection
> >
> > 20.4.16.6. What do I do if something goes wrong
>
> I will try this and get back do you. Thanks for the tip.
>
> > Further, I believe that you run mergemaster -p before make installworld.
> > Not buildworld, after all I believe buildworld has to finish so you know
> > what to merge in the first place. So if buildworld fails, that has
> > nothing to do with mergemaster.
>
> I had looked at the handbook and saw this:
>
> Note: There are a few rare cases when an extra run of mergemaster -p is
> needed before the buildworld step. These are described in UPDATING. In
> general, though, you can safely omit this step if you are not updating
> across one or more major FreeBSD versions.
>
> This is the only reason I tried it.
>
> Thanks for the response!
>
> Anthony

Interesting! I didn't know that.

Thank you!

>
> > On Monday 05 December 2005 09:11, Anthony Philipp wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am trying to upgrade from 5.4 to 6.0. I ran cvsup and tried a make
> > > buildworld, but it failed. So I checked out the handbook and noticed
> > > that it mentioned I should run a mergemaster -p first. So I did that
> > >
> > > and I still failed. Here are the last few lines:
> > > : undefined reference to `Buf_AddByte'
> > >
> > > var.o(.text+0x2b5e): In function `Var_Dump':
> > > : undefined reference to `Buf_Data'
> > >
> > > var.o(.text+0x2ba2): In function `Var_Dump':
> > > : undefined reference to `Buf_Data'
> > >
> > > var.o(.text+0x2c31): In function `Var_Print':
> > > : undefined reference to `Buf_Peel'
> > >
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >
> > > Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/make.
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >
> > > Stop in /usr/src.
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >
> > > Stop in /usr/src.
> > >
> > > I've searched the archives and couldn't find anything relating to
> > > this, but hopefully someone knows the answer. Also I have have done
> > > minor version changes before, but never a major one, so maybe I am
> > > just missing a key step.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > Anthony Philipp
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