Upgrading 11.3 -> 12.1 [was Re: Radeon 5770, graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod, and graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod]

[Scott Bennett]

Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:05 AM Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:
>
> > On 2020-04-13 14:06, Scott Bennett wrote:
> >
> > > If I can ever get 12.1 to build on 11.3, I can upgrade.
> >
> > This is going out of the scope of the thread, but what is your problem
> > exactly?
> > I was able to build 12.1 on 11.3 on different boxes.
> >
>
> He doesn't have LLD or a newer binutils, so is hitting the test for that in
> libc. Or we've got some kind of false positive.
>
     How new does binutils have to be?  The last time a portmaster -a run
updated it was on 25 February, though I have no idea when the time before
that might have been.  I.e., I can't say which version was installed by
26 Nov. 2019.

hellas# echo $PATH
/usr/local/libexec/ccache:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin
hellas# 

					Scott