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 1.194 retrieving revision 1.220 diff -u -p -r1.194 -r1.220 --- src/UPDATING 2009/03/29 18:33:56 1.194 +++ src/UPDATING 2011/01/21 15:59:04 1.220 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.194 2009/03/29 18:33:56 mrg Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.220 2011/01/21 15:59:04 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 @@ -15,15 +15,114 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile. Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +20110121: + Assembler files no longer use -tradition-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 + 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 + 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. + 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 @@ -61,6 +160,10 @@ Recent changes: 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 - @@ -101,6 +204,20 @@ 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 @@ -177,9 +294,10 @@ 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 @@ -397,7 +515,8 @@ 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