I've just started subscribing to the mailing lists and hope this a
question that everyone has heard too many times... but...

Can anyone point me to a document or list out the procedure needed
to convert a standard 0.9 system up to the "current" snapshot with
shared libraries?

I've gone back through the mailing list archives for "current-users"
and found a terse procedure from Charles Hannum.  It looked like:

 {Quoted from Charles' 12 Nov 1993 09:57:06 Posting}...

 > To ammend the original suggestion:
 > 
 > cd /usr/src/share/mk; make install
 > cd /usr/src/include; make && make install
 >    setenv LDSTATIC -static
 >    setenv NOPIC
 > cd /usr/src/lib/libc; make && make install
 > cd /usr/src/gnu/lib/libmalloc; make && make install
 >    cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gas; make && make install
 >    cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld; make && make install
 > # You'll probably get some barfage from the above because ld.so won't
 > # build yet.  Ignore it and install ld anyway.
 >    cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc; make && make install
 >    unsetenv NOPIC LDSTATIC
 >    cd /usr/src/lib ; make && make install
 >    cd /usr/src/gnu/lib ; make && make install
 > cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld; make && make install
 >    cd /usr/src; make && make install
 > 
 > You'll probably need the latest sources for this to work.
 > 

All went fine (with some minor problems) until I tried to build rtld
when doing a make in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld.  The output is below.
I did verify that /usr/bin/as was the newly installed gas and that gcc
(and it's utilities) is still the original that came with 0.9.

The sources I started from are original 0.9 with the tar files 
overlayed on top of the source tree and a sup update as of today.

Have I missed something obvious?

Any help would be appreciated.

-Freeman


--- make output from /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld ---
===> ldconfig
===> ldd
===> rtld
cc -O -I/usr2/current/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/rtld/.. -I/usr2/current/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/rtld -I/usr2/current/src/gnu/usr.bin/ld/rtld/../i386 -O -fpic -DRTLD  -c rtld.c
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:52: invalid character '[' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:89: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:96: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:97: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:99: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:103: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:104: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:106: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:107: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:109: invalid character '@' in first operand
as: /var/tmp/cc007827.s:110: invalid character '@' in first operand
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*** Error code 1

Stop.
*** Error code 1

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