Major version binary upgrade 6.3-RELEASE -> 7-RELEASE

[Derek Ragona]

At 06:22 AM 3/14/2008, Daniel Demacek wrote:
>Hi,
>
>in my testing environemnt I've tryied binary upgrade from 6.3-RELEASE -> 
>7-RELEASE by following Colin Percival's article at 
>http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2007-11-11-freebsd-major-version-upgrade.html
>
>I am stuck at the step "portupgrade -f ruby":
>
>--->  Reinstalling 'ruby-1.8.6.111_1,1' (lang/ruby18)
>--->  Building '/usr/ports/lang/ruby18'
>===>  Cleaning for ruby-1.8.6.111_1,1
>===>  Found saved configuration for ruby-1.8.6,1
>===>  Extracting for ruby-1.8.6.111_1,1
>=> MD5 Checksum OK for ruby/ruby-1.8.6-p111.tar.bz2.
>=> SHA256 Checksum OK for ruby/ruby-1.8.6-p111.tar.bz2.
>/bin/mv /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/ext/dl/h2rb 
>/usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/bin/
>===>  Patching for ruby-1.8.6.111_1,1
>===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for ruby-1.8.6.111_1,1
>/usr/bin/sed -i.bak -e 
>'s|-l$pthread_lib|-pthread|g' 
>/usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/configure
>/bin/rm -rf /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/ext/Win32API
>/bin/rm -rf /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/ext/win32ole
>/bin/mv /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/ext/gdbm 
>/usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/
>/bin/mv /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/ext/iconv 
>/usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/
>/bin/mv /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/ext/tk 
>/usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/
>===>  Configuring for ruby-1.8.6.111_1,1
>/usr/bin/touch /usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/configure
>configure: WARNING: you should use --build, --host, --target
>checking build system type... i386-portbld-freebsd6
>checking host system type... i386-portbld-freebsd6
>checking target system type... i386-portbld-freebsd6
>checking for i386-portbld-freebsd6-gcc... cc
>checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>checking whether the C compiler works... Bad system call (core dumped)
>configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
>If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
>See `config.log' for more details.
>===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
>Please report the problem to stas at FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
>"/usr/ports/lang/ruby18/work/ruby-1.8.6-p111/config.log" including the output
>of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide
>an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
>/var/db/pkg`).
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ruby18.
>*** Error code 1
>
>Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ruby18.
>     ! lang/ruby18 (ruby-1.8.6.111_1,1)    (configure error)
>
>
>
>Any suggestions? Thank you.
>Dan.
>

Try:

portupgrade -fP ruby

instead to install ruby from the 7.0 built package.

         -Derek

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