Gary Blackburn wrote:

> Ok... I have finally been completely successful upgrading Mac OS X to
> 5.6.1. There has been some amount of traffic on the subject and I'd like
> to consolidate everything into one post for posterity:
>
> 1) Make sure you decompress the tar file with gzip and tar... do NOT
> decompress from Mac OS 9.x or from a Classic program such as Stuffit.
>
> 2) Make sure you
>
>     setenv LC_ALL C
>     setenv LANG "en_US"
>
> (assuming that "en_US" applies to you. :-D) This will prevent most of
> the warnings during the make tests. (I had 4 out of 251 fail. "Test 303"
> (filehandle open only for output), lib/db-btree, "Test 51" (re: Berkeley
> DB), and lib/posix.)
>
> 3) Here's the order of commands that works for me:
>
>    rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
>    sh Configure -ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dccflags="-g -pipe"
> -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile
>    make
>    make test
>    mv install install.txt    # Necessary because INSTALL eq install on
> OS X
>    make install
>
> And there you go. Hopefully this will be useful to someone.

Thanks Gary it is very useful, at least for me.


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Giorgio Valoti
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