[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> I used my running 3.4 stable to run `make buildworld' on the sources
> from 2000-02-04 or so. I ran across the xinstall problem but worked
> around it, then tried `make installworld', which failed and hosed my
> machine. In order to make sure that the xinstall workaround wasn't
> the problem, I installed 3.1 from a CD, then restored the /usr/obj and
> /usr/src trees from before the hosing. I ran `make installworld'
> again. This happily installed quite a number of files, but it barfed
> when installing bin/test (with a coredump). After this, I didn't have
> a working system anymore, since /bin/sh threw a core on me.
I forgot to mention that it was signal 12, invalid system call (I
think).
I now think that I should have made a new kernel, first.
Hm. The file /usr/src/UPDATING doesn't say that I should, so maybe I
can be forgiven for not knowing, and there's nothing in Chapter 17 of
the Handbook, either.
Do you think making a kernel first will help?
kai
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