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 1.210 retrieving revision 1.217 diff -u -p -r1.210 -r1.217 --- src/UPDATING 2010/05/22 02:31:25 1.210 +++ src/UPDATING 2010/12/17 09:54:27 1.217 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.210 2010/05/22 02:31:25 christos Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.217 2010/12/17 09:54:27 jruoho 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 @@ -15,12 +15,47 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile. Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +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 + unless they are rebuilt. If you are building with MKUPDATE=yes, + you need to clean the src/external/bsd/atf/tests/ and the src/tests/ + trees by hand. + +20100522: + Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ will cause various build + problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you have any + build problems with xsrc. + +20100522: + private section of was splitted, and now mklocale(1) + include ctype_local.h, so you have to make cleandir in tools/mklocale. 20100520: The location of the xkb compiled descriptions has changed. Please remove usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled from your $DESTDIR. - 20100222: The shared objects file extension has been changed from .so to .pico, in order to avoid conflicts with shared libraries names