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From: bmk@teleport.com (bmk)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0 ALPHA install
Date: 21 Nov 1994 23:03:36 -0800
Organization: Department of Redundancy Department
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Message-ID: <3as548$7e4@linda.teleport.com>
References: <3ao7pu$g29@linda.teleport.com>
Reply-To: bmk@teleport.com
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I decided to follow up on these questions with a little experimentation:

In article <3ao7pu$g29@linda.teleport.com>, bmk <bmk@teleport.com> wrote:
>I've recently started upgrading my system from 1.1.5.1 to 2.0 ALPHA.
>I do have a few questions that I need answers to before I do the final
>cutover:
>
>* I believe that I can use packages from 1.x if I install the
>compat1xdist.  Is this true?

Sure looks that way.  So far no problems.

>* How about X packages that were compiled for Xfree 2.1?

Ditto.

>* Does the xview32 package work with X11R6?  (I had problems with some
>of the supplied tools [shelltool, ftptool, etc] when I installed this
>on 1.1.5.1 running xview32.)  If the binary package won't work, is there
>a working port?

Seems to work also.

>* When compiling source packages I now often get [Conflicting types for
>'sys_errlist'] errors.   These same source packages worked great under
>1.1.5.1.  What's changed, and how can I work around it?

This is still a major problem.  Has anyone else seen this, and how can
I fix it?

Another problem that I've had that I can't seem to work through is that
C News gets a bus error and dumps core just prior to checking whether
or not there's space available to post articles.  I compiled C news
using the same source tree as the one I was using under 1.1.5.1, after
doing a make clean (of course).  Since I know now that my old 1.1.5.1
binaries should work, I'm going to restore them from tape and try them.
I'd rather get a good clean compile, but that's life, eh?


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