Uwe Doering wrote: >Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:44:45AM +0100, Bernard El-Hagin wrote: >>> >>>>>>Since I have this same problem I ran 'make describe' and here's the >>>>>>result: >>>>>> >>>>>>------------- >>>>>>===> devel/sparc-rtems-gdb >>>>>>*** Error code 1 >>>>>> >>>>>>Stop in /usr/ports/devel. >>>>>>*** Error code 1 >>>>>> >>>>>>Stop in /usr/ports. >>>>>>------------- >>>>> >>>>>What version of FreeBSD are you running? >>>> >>>>Sorry, I should have mentioned that. I'm running 5.1-Release. >>> >>>I think there's something in one of the included makefiles that relies >>>on a change to make(1) that happened after 5.1-RELEASE. Note that >>>only the most recent release is supported by the ports collection >>>(http://www.freebsd.org/ports); try updating to 5.2 or 4.9, which >>>should fix the problem. >> >> Wow, that really sucks, since I've had zero luck updating to 5.2 the two >> times I tried, and going with 4.9 from 5.1R means a reinstall, rather >> than an upgrade (I'm led to believe). > >If you have the OS sources installed you could selectively upgrade the >source files of make(1) via cvsup(1) and just install it. No need to >upgrade the whole OS only because make(1) got an additional command line >option. We recently did this for our 4.5 based systems.
Could you please explain how that's done? I've never selectively upgraded the source and I'm afraid of screwing something up. -- Cheers, Bernard _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
