Re: Upgrading from 4.5->5.2 breaks in rescue/rescue/common

Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> At 8:12 AM +1030 1/6/04, Benjamin Close wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>     A little while ago I posted that a buildworld from
>> RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE to RELENG_5_2 failed. Whilst I got
>> some help fixing the problem it stopped at building
>> rescue/rescue/common.
>
>
> If it were me, I would first try to upgrade to 4.9-"safe"
> aka 4.9-"security", make sure that was OK, and then jump
> to 5.x.  Obviously that's more work, so I wouldn't blame
> you too much if you wanted to avoid the extra builds.
>
> Also, I am not sure that would solve the problem you care
> about right now...  I'm just saying that's the way I tend
> to do things.

Yeah, I wanted to avoid doing this. Besides, there's going to be a lot 
of people out there not running 4.9,
so figured it's worth me waiting and getting the real problem fixed first.

>
>> ===> rescue/rescue/common
>> "/usr/src/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk", line 18: Malformed conditional
>> (defined(SHLIB_NAME) && ${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
>> make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
>> *** Error code 1
>
>
> Hmm.  How recent is your snapshot of RELENG_5_2 ?
>
> I *think* the above problem was fixed in RELENG_5_2 with an
> update to rescue/rescue/Makefile, back on Dec 24th or 25th.
> The basic problem is that you're getting the wrong version of
> make.
>
Snapshot was after the said commit - It was meant to fix the problem but 
didn't :(

> You might also be able to get around this by installing the
> new version of make (go into /usr/src/usr.bin/make and
> type 'make install').  I assume that has to work OK, but it
> is possible that it might cause you other problems.
>
Hmm, never thought of this one. I'll try it and let you know. It might 
be worth mentioning in UPDATING if it works.

Cheers,
    Benjamin

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