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 retrieving revision 1.179 retrieving revision 1.180 diff -u -p -r1.179 -r1.180 --- src/UPDATING 2008/11/25 14:27:43 1.179 +++ src/UPDATING 2008/11/26 19:00:34 1.180 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.179 2008/11/25 14:27:43 tsutsui Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.180 2008/11/26 19:00:34 wiz 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 @@ -19,25 +19,25 @@ Recent changes: 20081122: On i386 and amd64, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including - file-system have been disabled and moved into kernel modules. - Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare + 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 a file system where the kernel is loaded from automatically + for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically - If you have to load your kernel from file system which is not - the same type with the root file system, you have to load a necessary - file system module manually on the boot prompt or in boot.cfg file. + 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: