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

[Warner Losh]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:36 PM Scott Bennett <bennett at sdf.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

That should be new enough, but you may need to turn the cross build knobs
to build with 'external toolchain items'. Are you doing that? If not, then
I'll look into which ones you need.

Warner