Running 8 building 10 part2: ctfmerge hangs

[Benjamin Kaduk]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Ian Lepore wrote:

> There may be no path to success from 8.2.  I have a vague memory that a
> colleague at work starting running into problems like this (ctfmerge was
> one of them I think), and we played with things for a few hours
> (WITHOUT_CTF in make.conf only got us on to a new problem).  Eventually
> we gave up and updated his machine to 8.4.  That was for building
> 11-current but it may apply to 10 as well.

It has always been the case that the supported upgrade procedure involves
updating to the tip of the current stable branch before updating to (e.g.)
-current.  Sometimes other procedures also work, but it is not surprising
that the first upgrade is needed.

-Ben