upgrade to 4.9.8

[Kenneth Kalan]

I've looked through the archives but could not find what I was looking 
for.  Hopefully someone can help.

I have inherited an old machine running SunOS 4.1.4 and bind 4.9.7.  I want 
to upgrade to 4.9.8 but space is really tight and I can't afford any down 
time.

I have done "make links" and "make all" (could not get "make depend" to 
work).  I've tried "make -n install" and it appears that it would install 
everything in the correct place but the document mentions that perhaps I 
would rather install by hand.  Since space is so tight, I was wondering 
what actually changed from 4.9.7 to 4.9.8.  Can I get away with only 
changing one or two files, or does the entire package need to be 
installed?  I found the old src for 4.9.7 and was careful to modify the 
"makefile" and the "options.h" files so they would have the same mods. as 
the old 4.9.7 version, and they should have compiled the same.

Upgrading to 8.xx or 9.1.1 is not an option at this time.  I want to get a 
new server and do the upgrade at that time, instead of fooling around with 
this old box, especially since space is so tight.

Thanks

Ken


Kenneth Kalan
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Technical Support Consultant
kgk at northwestern.edu