Re: Upgrading 11.3 -> 12.1 [was Re: Radeon 5770, graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod, and graphics/drm-fbsd11.2-kmod]
Scott Bennett <[email protected]>
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Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 7:36 PM Scott Bennett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 9:05 AM Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 2020-04-13 14:06, Scott Bennett wrote: > > > > > > > > > If I can ever get 12.1 to build on 11.3, I can upgrade. > > > > > > > > This is going out of the scope of the thread, but what is your problem > > > > exactly? > > > > I was able to build 12.1 on 11.3 on different boxes. > > > > > > > > > > He doesn't have LLD or a newer binutils, so is hitting the test for that > > in > > > libc. Or we've got some kind of false positive. > > > > > How new does binutils have to be? The last time a portmaster -a run > > updated it was on 25 February, though I have no idea when the time before > > that might have been. I.e., I can't say which version was installed by > > 26 Nov. 2019. > > > That should be new enough, but you may need to turn the cross build knobs > to build with 'external toolchain items'. Are you doing that? If not, then > I'll look into which ones you need. > Not that I know of. That has not been the standard procedure for source- based upgrades across major release changes as long as I've been a FreeBSD user. While you're looking into that, would you please find out if there is anything special I will need to do about the boot loader phases in upgrading? Changes to the boot loaders caused me considerable grief a while back just within 11-STABLE, and I'd like to be better prepared, rather than run into similar problems again. Scott _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"