Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/UPDATING,v rcsdiff: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/UPDATING,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `commitid ...;' are present. retrieving revision 1.178 retrieving revision 1.183 diff -u -p -r1.178 -r1.183 --- src/UPDATING 2008/09/02 07:34:15 1.178 +++ src/UPDATING 2008/12/19 20:37:45 1.183 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.178 2008/09/02 07:34:15 lukem Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.183 2008/12/19 20:37:45 pgoyette 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 @@ -16,13 +16,39 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile. Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +20081219: + config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates - + swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config + (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun + config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those + kernels. + +20081205: + If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and + /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc + set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds. + +20081122: + On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including + file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules. + Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the + following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel: + + - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules + + - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module + for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically + + If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of + the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary + file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file. 20080827: If you built and installed a libc from sources between 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3) which results in false errors reported by lint(1). Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is - needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g: + needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.: $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install) 20080813: