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 1.213 retrieving revision 1.218 diff -u -p -r1.213 -r1.218 --- src/UPDATING 2010/06/04 15:11:31 1.213 +++ src/UPDATING 2011/01/15 16:13:59 1.218 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.213 2010/06/04 15:11:31 jmmv Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.218 2011/01/15 16:13:59 joerg 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 @@ -15,6 +15,34 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile. Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +20110112: + Assembler files on amd64 and i386 no longer use -traditional-cpp. + This can break the build of individual parts of the tree. This is + handled correctly by build.sh. Manual builds have to update + /usr/share/mk and re-run config(1) for any kernel configurations as + needed. + +20101217: + The tcpdump(8) program was changed to drop privileges and chroot(2) + by default. It may be necessary to manually update passwd(5) and + group(5) in order to make the program work with existing setups. + +20101125: + The latest changes to setenv(3) dissallow setting environment + variables with names that contain '='. Revision 1.18 of env.c + assumed that this was allowed. Installing a new libc with an + old copy of /usr/bin/env causes env x=1 printenv | grep x= to + break which affects the autoconf tests for dependency finding, + so building gcc will end up printing: + checking dependency style of gcc... none + configure: error: no usable dependency style found + Fix it by rebuilding and re-installing env. + +20101119: + Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ may cause various build + or run-time problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you + have any build problems with xsrc, or problems with mismatched + versions between xorg-server and drivers. 20100604: The update of ATF to 0.9 causes old tests written in shell to fail @@ -29,7 +57,7 @@ Recent changes: 20100522: private section of was splitted, and now mklocale(1) - include ctype_local.h, so you have to make cleandir tools/mklocale. + include ctype_local.h, so you have to make cleandir in tools/mklocale. 20100520: The location of the xkb compiled descriptions has changed. Please