Upgrading from stable/8 to stable/9 blocked by file 5.21 (r276416)

[John Nielsen]

On Jan 6, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:

> On 1/5/2015 4:49 AM, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 12:53-0800, Xin Li wrote:
>> 
>> Unless this problem is resolved, then those of us migrating from
>> stable/8 to stable/{9,10} need a pit stop at stable/9 r276385.
> 
> I just ran into this as well on my server I use for cross-building. I used to be able to build RELENG_10 on my RELENG_8 box, but its failing as well.  Is there any work around? Will there be one ?

FWIW I ran in to this (libmagic failing to find xlocale.h) myself trying to update a machine from 9.0-PRERELEASE to 9-STABLE. I wanted it done more than I wanted to know why it didn't work, so I went from 9.0-PRE to 9.1-REL, and then from 9.1-REL to 9-STABLE without incident.

JN