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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!majipoor.cygnus.com!news.cygnus.com!brendan From: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe) Subject: Re: Compiling Kernel with GCC-2: How, exactly? In-Reply-To: paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk's message of Sun, 25 Jul 1993 19:25:09 +0000 Message-ID: <BRENDAN.93Jul26141457@lisa.cygnus.com> Sender: news@cygnus.com Nntp-Posting-Host: lisa.cygnus.com Reply-To: brendan@cygnus.com (Brendan Kehoe) Organization: Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA References: <1993Jul22.011943.26148@husc14.harvard.edu> <1993Jul22.100311.24391@cm.cf.ac.uk> <HALEY.93Jul24163021@husc10.harvard.edu> <1993Jul25.192511.23179@cm.cf.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1993 22:14:57 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1993Jul25.192511.23179@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@myrddin.isl.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: I've not seen the exact packaging of the FreeBSD release yet but it's basically going to be an all or nothing update. There are fundamental changes in FreeBSD which means you're not going to be able to mix and match the new with the old and expect your system to work. For a start there's new db code that affects a lot more than you'd initially think. You can say that again; to build a different sendmail (5.65c + the IDA stuff), I had to bring the new db stuff from NetBSD-current. I then spent a good while making the other modifications necessary (hash_open's gone, you have to use dbopen now) and rebuilding everything under the sun. If spwd.db disappears, you're completely screwed if you haven't got a working fixit floppy at the time. :) Brendan -- Brendan Kehoe brendan@cygnus.com Cygnus Support, Mountain View, CA +1 415 903 1400