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From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Updating to current
Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Dec13222523@newt.fsa.ca>
Date: 14 Dec 93 06:25:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: storm@cs.mcgill.ca's message of 14 Dec 1993 04:28:03 GMT
In article <2ejfcj$d09@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
I work with NetBSD, so I will describe this for NetBSD-current.
Marc's description of the process is excellent. Of course, as he notes,
a week from now it might be different... this is an active source tree,
and if you want to track it does take a bit of pain.
I do one thing different from Marc: I compile everything STATIC --
that's right, no shared libraries. I don't bother with them at the
moment, and hey, someone should insure that static executables
continue to work :-)
If you want to have an easier time you can continue to build your
system with static libraries. This is actually quite a bit easier, and
*everything* compiles cleanly. You do not lose any functionality, just
a bit of disk space. I've got a 4G of disk at home so ... what's a few
megs between friends?
Just a few hours ago I did the following (actually, I first did a few
preliminaries that Marc describes very well)
# make clean && make obj && make && make install && reboot
And the machine did reboot after rebuilding everything correctly.
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