Re: 4.5-> 5.2 upgrade path issues

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:21:29AM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:
> Hi All,
> 	Found an old box running FreeBSD 4.5 quite happily on our network.
> Due to security issues (now I know the box exists), I've asked the admin
> to update to 4.9 or Freebsd 5.2. He tried upgrading to FreeBSD 5.2 however
> the build world failed with:
> 
> ===> rescue/rescue/common
> "/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk", line 18: Malformed conditional
> (defined(SHLIB_NA
> ME) && ${SHLIB_NAME:M*.so.*})
> "/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk", line 18: Missing dependency operator
> "/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk", line 22: if-less endif
> "/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk", line 22: Need an operator
> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
> *PDATING r code 1
> 
> Updating has nothing about a proper procedure to get around this, so
> what's the recommended upgrade path?
> 
> The box is running:
> 
> FreeBSD corvus.clearchain.com 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan
> 28 14:
> 31:56 GMT 2002
> murray_at_builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC
> i386
> 
> And we cvsuped to RELENG_5_2
> 
rescue/rescue/common, you sure?


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
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