For anyone who'd like to know, I was able to successfully upgrade to 4.0-RELEASE
by downloading the source tarballs, and unpacking them in my /usr/src directory.
I cleared it out of the old 3.4 sources beforehand, and found that you must
first compile a 4.0 kernel and reboot before attempting a make world. After you
reboot, you can drop in to single-user (for safety), and run yoyur make world. 

Since it only installs the new gcc at the end, you may want to re-make world a
second time, or simply make and install gcc, etc. first.
--cokane

Kris Kennaway had the audacity to say:
> You should have read the UPDATING file before attempting this. It explains
> the hoops you need to jump through. I don't know whether you can easily
> recover from where you are now, it might be best to restore the system
> directories from a backup and start again.
> 
> Kris
> 
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Dale Robson wrote:
> 
> > To anyone who can help,
> >     I've been trying to upgrade from 3.3 stable to 4.0 stable and I've been
> > having trouble getting it to work.  I have run make buildworld and that
> > worked.  Then during make installworld I got an error so that only half
> > the files were installed.  
> >     The trouble that I now have is that the newly upgraded 'make' links
> > with the old versions of several libraries.  When I try to run make it
> > says: "Bad sytem call".  Is there a way to fix make without being able
> > to use make?  I've made a couple attempts at running a staticly linked
> > version on make compiled on other boxes but they all argue about the
> > ".include <bsd.prog.mk>" lines in the make files.  Thank you for any
> > help.
> > 
> > Dale Robson
> > 
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