On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:

> > Do I have to do something special before I can do a 'make buildworld', or
> > is ~current currently broken ?
> 
> Bootstrapping from 4.0 and previous versions to 4.1 and -current is broken,
> because mtree depends on new library features but must be built before the
> new libraries.  You have to somehow bootstrap the new libraries.  Maybe
> copy them from a current snapshot.

Incidentally, whoever broke this should be shot and strung -- I thought
that upgrading from the latest -STABLE to -CURRENT was a supported
operation?

Copying files from snapshots to bootstrap yourself is just plain
unacceptable.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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