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+++ src/UPDATING 2007/11/06 23:07:11 1.163.4.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.152.6.1 2009/06/05 17:01:43 snj Exp $
+$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.163.4.1 2007/11/06 23:07:11 matt Exp $
This file (UPDATING) is intended to be a brief reference to recent
changes that might cause problems in the build process, and a guide for
@@ -16,16 +16,81 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile.
Recent changes:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-20090529:
- pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
- detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
- ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
-
- audit-packages.conf(5) has been superseded by pkg_install.conf(5).
- The default configuration is the same. Support for pkg_view(1) has
- been retired. The functionality of audit-packages(1) and
- download-vulnerability-list(1) has moved into pkg_admin(1), wrapper
- scripts that handle the common use cases are provided.
+20071028:
+ The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.
+ You need to update any custom kernel configuration file you have
+ to remove any references to pccons (which includes removing the
+ now useless XSERVER option) and replace them with the correct
+ entries for the wscons driver. See the GENERIC configuration file
+ for more details.
+
+20070913:
+ A latent bug in dhclient/dhcpd that caused it to be unable to
+ enumerate interfaces was fixed. The bug began to cause
+ problems after 20070911 when the kernel's SIOCGIFCONF
+ implementation was repaired. From 20070529 to 20070911 racoon
+ could not enumerate interfaces. (These are noted because
+ normal kernel/userspace version matching hygiene is not
+ sufficient to avoid this problem.) Ensure that both kernel
+ and userland are from after 20070913.
+
+20070703:
+ nbinstall has been renamed as it calls the target specific and
+ the logic to pass down STRIP from mk been removed. This forces
+ a re-installation of tools.
+
+20070422:
+ The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
+ has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
+ to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
+ root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
+ root filesytem will be relative to that filesystem - unless they
+ start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
+ that has such links.
+ This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
+ the emulated root.
+
+20070412:
+ The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
+ instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
+ example.
+
+20070319:
+ src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
+ on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
+ updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
+ cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
+ rebuild of object files that might have been built
+ incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
+ src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
+
+20070210:
+ src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
+ find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
+ | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
+ will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
+
+20070209:
+ The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
+ was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
+ kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
+ library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
+ an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
+ (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
+ the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
+ continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
+ is the only threaded application in the base system.
+
+20061214:
+ Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
+ from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
+ will need to do a "make cleandir" in
+ tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
+ bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
+ usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
+ as the installation images in distrib/
+ in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
+ file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
20061108:
The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
@@ -54,725 +119,6 @@ Recent changes:
your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
errors will result.
-20060526:
- The kernel linker scripts for i386 and xen
- (sys/arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript*) were changed to set the
- load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
- (like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
- will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug and ld will fail
- with an error like:
- ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript:45 \
- non constant expression for load base
- You need to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile
- and install the linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest
- way is with a "build.sh tools" command, with any other options
- that you use normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is
- installed as ${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
-
-20060131:
- the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
- the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,
- you need to update ofwboot. After a full build, just copy
- /usr/mdec/ofwboot to /, or do a rebuild of
- src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/ofwboot and install the result to /.
-
-20050917:
- arch/*/conf/std.* was changed to include conf/std, which
- contains MI options previously enabled by default.
- If you have kernel config files which doesn't include
- arch/*/conf/std.*, you need to edit them to include conf/std
- to get the previous configuration.
-
-20050830:
- named.conf was moved from /etc/namedb to /etc.
- postinstall(8) migrates this during interactive use.
- Users of MKUPDATE=yes will need to manually rectify
- this in their DESTDIR.
-
-20050825:
- Some data structures in sys/device.h, related to interface
- attributes and locator names, were changed. config(1) was
- modified to emit the new data structures.
- Thus usr.bin/config must be updated (and run on the kernel
- configuration file) before a new kernel can be built.
-
-20050531:
- genassym.sh(8) was moved to genassym(1). You need to either build
- tools first or install the version of genassym from /usr/bin before
- you can build a kernel again.
-
-20050520:
- Because a kernfs bug which xentools relies on was fixed,
- xentools up to xentools20-2.0.3nb4 won't work with new kernel.
-
-20050417:
- postinstall(8) was moved from /etc to /usr/sbin and made part
- of the "base" set, to make it easier to invoke after an
- upgrade.
-
-20050325:
- pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4). Be sure
- to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
- configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
- with wsconsctl. Depending on the default value for the pitch, you
- might even not hear any more beep. Also, it is advised to attach both
- devices the same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the
- pcppi(4) device may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
-
-20050211:
- Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
- some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
- cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
- different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
- make a build continue.
-
-20050109:
- Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
- /etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
- for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
- a password).
-
-20041229:
- Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
- being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
- you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
- the build.
-
-20041201:
- Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
- /dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
- MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
-
-20041006:
-
- A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
- variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
- will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
- on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
-
- ident /bin/sh | grep var
-
- Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
- before attempting a build.
-
-20041001:
- The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
- dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
- dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
- before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
- ftp-proxy are the victims).
-
-20040715:
- The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
- if sendmail should be started at boot time. It checks the
- contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
- owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
- to the mail infrastructure have been made. If no changes
- are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
-
- Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
-
- If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
- local delivery, it is important that you also update your
- sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
- loopback interface.
-
-20040715:
- The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
- kernel builds has been changed again. The latest version
- of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
-
-20040621:
- Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
- from a clean objdir under tools/*.
-
- This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
- to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
-
- The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
-
-20040516:
- The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
- from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/
to /etc/X11/.
- Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
- "make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
-
- postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
- /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
- detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
- manually move these files yourself.
-
-20040426:
- Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
- been removed in favor of the newer layout. This affects
- consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
- the dynamic discovery mechanism. This is believed only to
- be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
- the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
- built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
- will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
- 2004/04/25. If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
- does not work, make sure that your revision of
- src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
- do the following:
-
- cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
- make USETOOLS=no includes
- cd lib/libc
- make USETOOLS=no dependall install
- cd ../../sbin/sysctl
- make USETOOLS=no dependall install
-
- If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
- identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
- "unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that. if that happens,
- make sure to follow the above steps.
-
-20040425:
- The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
- are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
- sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
- invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
- automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances,
- affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
- upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
- encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
- filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
- possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
-
-20040418:
- statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
- installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
- a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
- build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
- clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
- anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
- from the libc build directory.
-
-20040326:
- The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
- has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
- and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
- to build it.
-
- This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
- building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
-
-20040318:
- A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
- provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
- notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
- ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
- recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
- (recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
-
-20040313:
- On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
- the old wsqms driver is now called qms. Kernel config files
- will need updating. See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
- for examples.
-
-20040125:
- On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
- needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
- files.
-
-20040109:
- Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
- added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
- when using those layouts. If you have been using -current
- since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
- superblock mismatches. To repair, make sure you have
- an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
- to complete the filesystem upgrade. A message has
- been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
- See the following discussion for more information:
- http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
-
-20031203:
- New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
- It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
- the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
-
-20031111:
- A newer mkdep is needed. Error noting that is
- cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
-
-20031008:
- /usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
- It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
- the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
-
-20031007:
- A sign exension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
- of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags. This should only
- affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
- A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
- should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
- to the kernel which should discover and warn about it. See
- http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
-
-20030906:
- With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
- code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
- kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
-
-20030801:
- With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
- rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
- /usr/lib/libdes* before building.
-
-20030703:
- Texinfo was updated to 4.6. To avoid failures when trying to
- build the included texinfo files, do:
-
- cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
- make MKINFO=no dependall install
-
-20030630:
- Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
- cd share/mk && make install
- cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
- make MKMAN=no dependall install
- (untested).
-
-20030516:
- Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
- were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
- mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
- been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
- export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
- make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
- file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
- a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
-
-20030402:
- The superblock layout for FFS was changed. If you have 1.6
- fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
- with the first alternate, because they compare too many
- fields (even ones that aren't useful). If possible, upgrade
- your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
- None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
-
-20030324:
- sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported. Since sendmail is
- now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
- mode for most common activities, there is a new config
- file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
- The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
- is named netbsd-msp.cf. Upgrading your regular sendmail
- configuration file is also strongly advised.
-
- See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
- the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
- information.
-
-20030117:
- Texinfo was updated to 4.3. To avoid failures when trying to
- build the included texinfo files, do:
-
- cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
- make MKINFO=no dependall install
-
-20021223:
- The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
- "${DESTDIR}" from path names.
- This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
- For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
- update tools/mtree, before running make build.
-
-20021219:
- CVS repository layout was changed. See the following for details
- if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
-
- http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
-
-20021219:
- install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
- alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
- of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
-
- The build system was modified to take advantage of
- this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
- use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
- reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
-
-20021130:
- fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
- If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
- and rebuild libc:
- make includes
- make do-lib-libc
- If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
- before rebuilding the tools.
-
-20021126:
- The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
- including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
- All header files, including are copied into
- /usr/include.
-
-20021121:
- The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
- (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
- split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
- This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
- new libraries are installed. The process of rebuilding
- libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
- required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
- do this.
-
- An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
- which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
- their global contructors/destructors will not be invoked.
-
-20021121:
- A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
- corrected.
-
- NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
- default. However, the assembler lacked support for marking
- objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
- compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
- to the assembler.
-
- Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
- old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
- incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
-
- The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
- a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
- against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
- markings. ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
- WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
-
- The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
- the libraries on the system. The easiest way to do this for
- system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
- generally available on releng.NetBSD.org. Any packages you
- have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
- if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
-
- If you have questions about this matter, please contact
- port-arm@NetBSD.org.
-
-20021011:
- Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
- Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
- to be rebuilt.
-
-20021010:
- The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
- dependencies on attributes, as well as other options. Users
- must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
- kernel.
-
-20021009:
- A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
- which is now used by the SCSI configuration description. Users
- must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
- kernel.
-
-20021003:
- Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
- framework. Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
- before building a new kernel.
-
-20021001:
- The i386mp branch has been merged. To compile a kernel, users
- will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
- file. Multiprocessor kernels will need
- ioapic* at mainbus? apid ?
- options MULTIPROCESSOR
- options COM_MPLOCK
-
-20020922:
- MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
- certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
- linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
- and /sbin are dynamically linked.
- If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
- you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
- with:
- make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
-
-20020917:
- USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
- - TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
- there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
- x86_64).
- - EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
- root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu). This
- enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
- platforms.
-
-20020906:
- gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
- reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
-
-20020822:
- Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
- are now provided in /rescue.
-
- To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
- what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
- from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
-
-20020820:
- crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
- is statically linked.
-
- Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
-
-20020605:
- smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
-
- Add the following into /etc/group:
-
- smmsp:*:17:
-
- and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
-
- smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
-
-20020515:
- sshd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in, or sshd
- will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivlegeSeparation=yes)
-
- Add the following into /etc/group:
-
- sshd:*:16:
-
- and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
-
- sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
-
- Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
- the build process).
-
-20020426:
- NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
-
-20020426:
- etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for
- configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
- the problems identified.
- This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
- configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
-
-20020320:
- needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
- Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
-
-20020319:
- Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
- on send(2) operation. Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
- newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
-
-20020311:
- ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh. Beware
- if you restart your machine from remote. Note that sshd.conf needs
- to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
-
-20020223:
- Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
- so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
- the VAX assembly files.
-
-20020118:
- ntpd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in or builds
- will break as mtree aborts early.
-
- Add the following into /etc/group:
-
- ntpd:*:15:
-
- and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
-
- ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
-
-20011207:
- If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
- reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
- toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
-
- To fix:
-
- Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
- Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
-
- gnu/lib/libgcc
- gnu/lib/libstdc++
-
- After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
-
-20011201:
- In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
- you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
- point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
- point is broken.
-
- To build:
-
- remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
- remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
- against the new libgcc.a)
-
-20011128:
- Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
- the various "files" files. Bug fixes to config(8) are
- required in order for this to work properly. Make sure
- to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
- to build a new kernel.
-
-20011030:
- libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
- before building libc.
-
-20011029:
- The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
- see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
- procedure in great detail. BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
- build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
- manual update log.
-
- Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
- BUILDING document for caveats. Generally, BUILDING supersedes
- UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
- by the new build system.
-
-20011028:
- src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
- symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
- prevented this was corrected.
-
- Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
- Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
- for you.
-
-20011006:
- /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
- absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
- understand the format.
-
- Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
-
-20011004:
- Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
- is suggested before running a snapshot build
-
-20010915:
- The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
- a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h. There may be stale .depend
- files that still reference this file.
-
- Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
- directories.
-
-20010803:
- grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo. Since it
- requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
- building gnu/usr.bin/grep. To install new texinfo, please follow
- the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
-
-20010803:
- (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
- `fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand. To build the
- kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain,
- (i.e., build.sh -t) or (temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU"
- from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
- See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
- [updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
-
-20010731:
- Bootloader update on ELF platforms. DDB in kernels from before
- this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
- bootloaders.
-
-20010726:
- Texinfo was updated to 4.0. To avoid failures when trying to
- build the included texinfo files, do:
-
- cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
- make MKINFO=no dependall install
-
-20010718:
- Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0. The way this
- was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
- make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
- timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
-
- The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
- if you have a stale dependency.
-
- Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
- before starting your build.
-
-20010628:
- A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
- in lint(1). If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
- bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
-
-20010226:
- Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
- will break as mtree aborts early.
-
- To work around add by hand:
-
- named:*:14:
-
- to /etc/group and add:
-
- named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
-
- to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
-
- Now a make build should progress.
-
-20010219:
- get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
- to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
-
- Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
- usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
- CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
- usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
- building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
-
-20010204:
- prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
- particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
- needs to be installed before make build.
-
-20010114:
- introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
- bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
- anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
- with make build.
-
-20010101:
- bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
- afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
-
-20001230:
- New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
- If you get make errors,
- (cd share/mk; make install)
- Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
-
-20001019:
- The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
- major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
- directory.
-
-20000929:
- The following make directives are obsoleted.
- MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA
- By default, RSA is built into libcrypto. IDEA and RC5 will not be
- built into libcrypto. By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
- additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
-
-
Hints for a more successful build:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":