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 1.197 retrieving revision 1.219 diff -u -p -r1.197 -r1.219 --- src/UPDATING 2009/06/21 20:08:36 1.197 +++ src/UPDATING 2011/01/17 18:11:09 1.219 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.197 2009/06/21 20:08:36 mrg Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.219 2011/01/17 18:11:09 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 +15,96 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile. Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +20110117: + Assembler files on the following platforms no longer use -tradition-cpp: + - Alpha, + - AMD64, + - i386, + - SPARC, + - SPARC64. + 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 + 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 + libXX.so. All now stale regular .so files can be removed from + your object directories. + +20100204: + The termcap database has been removed from the sources, + but has not been marked obsolete so it is not removed + from the system when upgrading. + As such, you will need to remove them from your object + and destination directories. + +20091101: + After updating, it may be necessary to make the 'cleandir' + target in src/tools/yacc/ and in src/usr.bin/yacc/ before a + 'build.sh -u tools' or 'build.sh -u distribution'. Ditto + src/tools/lex/ and src/usr.bin/lex/. + +20091001: + On amd64 you must rebuild tools (to get the new binutils) + before building a kernel, or the build fails on cpufunc.S. + +20091001: + An error will create a ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/xkb + symlink, failing the build. Delete the link, and the subdir + it is in, and retry your build. + +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 @@ -36,9 +126,9 @@ Recent changes: 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. + 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 @@ -120,6 +210,20 @@ 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 @@ -196,9 +300,10 @@ 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 @@ -416,7 +521,8 @@ Fix: Try the following sequence of comma (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files may remain. The command tries to clean everything up) -Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type +Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible + pointer type Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype