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[Bernard El-Hagin]

Uwe Doering wrote:

>Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
>> Uwe Doering wrote:
>>>Bernard El-Hagin wrote:
>>>>Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
>>>>>[...]
>>>>>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.
>
>If you haven't already done so, install the port 'cvsup', preferably the 
>precompiled package in order to avoid having to install Modula (which 
>'cvsup' is written in).
>
>Then you need an appropriate supfile, '/etc/cvsup-src-5.2' in this 
>example, which should look like this:
>
>--------------------- cut here ------------------------
>*default  host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
>*default  base=/usr
>*default  prefix=/usr
>*default  release=cvs
>*default  tag=RELENG_5_2
>*default  delete use-rel-suffix
>
>src-all
>--------------------- cut here ------------------------
>
>Now do
>
>   cvsup -g -i src/usr.bin/make /etc/cvsup-src-5.2
>
>Once this went through successfully, build and install the new version:
>
>   cd /usr/src/usr.bin/make
>   make obj && make depend && make
>   make install
>   (clean up /usr/obj afterwards if desired)
>
>That's it.  You can selectively upgrade other programs the same way if 
>necessary, provided of course there are no incompatibilities in the 
>respective areas between the OS releases.  A look at the CVS commit 
>comments is always a good idea in this context.


Thanks very much for that information, Uwe. I had no idea that such
selective upgrading was possible.


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Cheers,
Bernard