freebsd stable - Jan 2009 - Installing packages using ports after freebsd-update doesn't work on amd64

After upgrading the system using freebsd-update from 6.3-RELEASE to
7.0-RELEASE and after that, from 7.0 to 7.1 trying to install
ports-mgmt/portupgrade fails at ruby18 with the following message:

cc -shared -Wl,-soname,libruby18.so.18  array.o  bignum.o  class.o
compar.o  dir.o  dln.o  enum.o  error.o  eval.o  file.o  gc.o  hash.o
inits.o  io.o  marshal.o  math.o  numeric.o  object.o  pack.o  parse.o
process.o  prec.o  random.o  range.o  re.o  regex.o  ruby.o  signal.o
sprintf.o  st.o  string.o  struct.o  time.o  util.o  variable.o
version.o   dmyext.o -lcrypt -lm  -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
-pthread  -o libruby18.so.18
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libpthread.a(thr_syscalls.o): relocation
R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with
-fPIC
/usr/lib/libpthread.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
*** Error code 1

I added CFLAGS?= -O2 -fPIC -pipe to /etc/make.conf but the problem persists.

I didn't activate pthread support for ruby18.

Any ideas on what's going wrong here?

Thank you!
Sorin.

Sorin Panca wrote:
> After upgrading the system using freebsd-update from 6.3-RELEASE to
> 7.0-RELEASE and after that, from 7.0 to 7.1 trying to install
> ports-mgmt/portupgrade fails at ruby18 with the following message:
If you haven't already you have to remove and reinstall _all_ of your
ports after doing a major version upgrade (6.x -> 7.x).

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Sorin Panca wrote:
> Prior to starting the upgrade I did a pkg_delete -a. I wanted a clean
> system (just like a reinstallation). How do I ensure that all packages
> were removed by pkg_delete -a ?
I cannot help wonder why you try to do a binary update.  Saving some
configuration files and doing a reinstall might have been easier IMO.
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    Tore

Tore Lund wrote:
> Sorin Panca wrote:
>> Prior to starting the upgrade I did a pkg_delete -a. I wanted a clean
>> system (just like a reinstallation). How do I ensure that all packages
>> were removed by pkg_delete -a ?
> 
> I cannot help wonder why you try to do a binary update.  Saving some
> configuration files and doing a reinstall might have been easier IMO.
I'm located in Europe, while the server is in the US. I also think that
a serious OS should be upgradable both from source and binaries without
booting it from other media, at runtime. Asking people near that server
to do something I should be able to do is never a good option.

Regards,
Sorin.