Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

Clint Olsen clint.olsen at gmail.com
Fri Nov 2 04:37:02 PDT 2007


On Nov 02, LI Xin wrote:
> So we get:
> 
>  - 5.5-STABLE works well on your box
>  - 6.2-RELEASE stock GENERIC works fine
>  - 6.3-PRERELEASE failed for some reason.
> 
> So far as I am aware I have no clue why this could happen.  Could you
> check if you have any special configuration in your /etc/make.conf,
> especially special CFLAGS?  I usually simply remove my /usr/src /usr/obj
> and build a new world without make.conf to make sure.

No special configs in my system:

X11BASE=${LOCALBASE}
# added by use.perl 2007-08-24 03:20:32
PERL_VER=5.8.8
PERL_VERSION=5.8.8

Unless something in here could be construed as dangerous?

-Clint


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