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 1.182 retrieving revision 1.201 diff -u -p -r1.182 -r1.201 --- src/UPDATING 2008/12/07 10:29:39 1.182 +++ src/UPDATING 2009/07/18 09:50:32 1.201 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.182 2008/12/07 10:29:39 tsutsui Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.201 2009/07/18 09:50:32 dsl 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 @@ -16,6 +16,88 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile. Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +20090718: + libc build changed so that strchr() provides the extra entry + point for index(). Update build of libc.a (and libc_pic.a) + may fail because the archive contains the unwanted index.o. + (Similarly for strrchr() and rindex().) + +20090709: + Native Xorg was upgraded again. Builds will probably fail again + without a clean objdir, at least for src/external/mit/xorg. + +20090616: + Native Xorg was upgraded. Builds will need a clean objdir for + src/external/mit/xorg. Upgrading a system from sets will not + work properly yet as the /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc + subdirectory has been changed into a file, and this needs to + be manually "rm -r"'ed before installing xbase.tgz. + +20090501: + Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this + can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people + who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you + note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a + failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools + objects and start again. + +20090325: + The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires + cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them. + +20090126: + The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You need to + 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory to avoid using + the old assembly stub. + +20090202: + pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict + detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with + ``pkg_admin rebuild''. + +20090110: + time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade: + 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install. + This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is + conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c. + 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work + before installing. + 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and + your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers + are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc + and libutil, install them and then continue building all the + libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once + the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build. + 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings, + rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries. + Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages + that depend on it. + 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file + will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible. + 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see + lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic + for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after + upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during + boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by + newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the + files manually. + 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see + accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be + removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by + /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove + the file. + 8. Application software that writes time_t to binary files on + disk will break or need attention. Most notably: if you are + using PostgreSQL < 8.4, you need to dump your databases, + rebuild PostgreSQL with the new time_t, then restore. + +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 @@ -48,6 +130,20 @@ Recent changes: MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild. +20080802: + A regression in binary compatibility for pthread_mutex_t has + been fixed. Unfortunately, the price is breaking compatibility + for -current. + + Threaded programs (using libpthread) and C++ programs (using + libstdc++) compiled after 20070907 and before 20080802 need to + be recompiled. + + One way to find affected pkgsrc packages: + + $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libpthread /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO + $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libstdc++ /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO + 20080731: WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels @@ -124,9 +220,10 @@ Recent changes: 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. + nbinstall has been renamed ${MACHINE_GNU_ARCH}-install. It + calls the target-specific strip program, and the logic to pass + down STRIP from make has been removed. This requires a + re-installation of tools. 20070422: The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root