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1.153   ! reed        1: $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.152 2006/11/09 18:20:59 christos Exp $
1.1       abs         2:
1.123     jmc         3: This file (UPDATING) is intended to be a brief reference to recent
                      4: changes that might cause problems in the build process, and a guide for
                      5: what to do if something doesn't work.
1.1       abs         6:
1.123     jmc         7: For a more detailed description of the recommended way to build NetBSD
                      8: using build.sh, see the BUILDING file.
                      9:
                     10: Note that much of the advice in this UPDATING file was written before
                     11: build.sh existed.  Nevertheless, the advice here may be useful for
                     12: working around specific problems with build.sh.
                     13:
                     14: See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile.
1.1       abs        15:
                     16: Recent changes:
                     17: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.138     lukem      18:
1.152     christos   19: 20061108:
                     20:        The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
                     21:        changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
                     22:        does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
                     23:        make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
                     24:
1.151     rpaulo     25: 20061009:
                     26:        The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
                     27:        available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
                     28:
1.150     bjh21      29: 20060814:
                     30:        The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
                     31:        withdrawn.  Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead.  See the GENERIC
                     32:        kernel configuration for an example.  X servers from the last
                     33:        few years should cope.
                     34:
1.149     christos   35: 20060703:
                     36:        MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
                     37:        if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
                     38:        to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
                     39:
1.148     dogcow     40: 20060627:
                     41:        socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
                     42:        For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
                     43:        your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
                     44:        errors will result.
                     45:
1.146     pavel      46: 20060526:
1.147     christos   47:        The kernel linker scripts for i386 and xen
                     48:        (sys/arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript*) were changed to set the
1.146     pavel      49:        load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
                     50:        (like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
1.147     christos   51:        will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug and ld will fail
                     52:        with an error like:
                     53:            ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript:45 \
                     54:                non constant expression for load base
                     55:        You need to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile
                     56:        and install the linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest
                     57:        way is with a "build.sh tools" command, with any other options
                     58:        that you use normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is
                     59:        installed as ${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
                     60:
1.145     martin     61: 20060131:
                     62:        the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
                     63:        the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,
                     64:        you need to update ofwboot. After a full build, just copy
                     65:        /usr/mdec/ofwboot to /, or do a rebuild of
                     66:        src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/ofwboot and install the result to /.
                     67:
1.144     yamt       68: 20050917:
                     69:        arch/*/conf/std.* was changed to include conf/std, which
                     70:        contains MI options previously enabled by default.
                     71:        If you have kernel config files which doesn't include
                     72:        arch/*/conf/std.*, you need to edit them to include conf/std
                     73:        to get the previous configuration.
                     74:
1.143     lukem      75: 20050830:
                     76:        named.conf was moved from /etc/namedb to /etc.
                     77:        postinstall(8) migrates this during interactive use.
                     78:        Users of MKUPDATE=yes will need to manually rectify
                     79:        this in their DESTDIR.
                     80:
1.142     drochner   81: 20050825:
                     82:        Some data structures in sys/device.h, related to interface
                     83:        attributes and locator names, were changed. config(1) was
                     84:        modified to emit the new data structures.
                     85:        Thus usr.bin/config must be updated (and run on the kernel
                     86:        configuration file) before a new kernel can be built.
                     87:
1.139     christos   88: 20050531:
1.141     augustss   89:        genassym.sh(8) was moved to genassym(1). You need to either build
                     90:        tools first or install the version of genassym from /usr/bin before
1.139     christos   91:        you can build a kernel again.
                     92:
1.140     yamt       93: 20050520:
                     94:        Because a kernfs bug which xentools relies on was fixed,
                     95:        xentools up to xentools20-2.0.3nb4 won't work with new kernel.
                     96:
1.138     lukem      97: 20050417:
                     98:        postinstall(8) was moved from /etc to /usr/sbin and made part
                     99:        of the "base" set, to make it easier to invoke after an
                    100:        upgrade.
                    101:
1.136     cube      102: 20050325:
                    103:        pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4).  Be sure
                    104:        to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
                    105:        configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
1.137     cube      106:        with wsconsctl.  Depending on the default value for the pitch, you
                    107:        might even not hear any more beep.  Also, it is advised to attach both
                    108:        devices the same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the
                    109:        pcppi(4) device may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
1.136     cube      110:
1.135     jmc       111: 20050211:
                    112:        Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
                    113:        some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
                    114:        cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
                    115:        different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
                    116:        make a build continue.
                    117:
1.134     christos  118: 20050109:
                    119:        Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
                    120:        /etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
                    121:        for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
                    122:        a password).
                    123:
1.133     christos  124: 20041229:
                    125:        Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
                    126:        being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
                    127:        you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
                    128:        the build.
                    129:
1.130     christos  130: 20041201:
                    131:        Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
                    132:        /dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
1.131     wiz       133:        MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
1.99      mrg       134:
1.129     jmc       135: 20041006:
                    136:
                    137:        A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
                    138:        variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
                    139:        will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
                    140:        on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
                    141:
                    142:         ident /bin/sh | grep var
                    143:
                    144:        Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
                    145:        before attempting a build.
                    146:
1.127     christos  147: 20041001:
                    148:        The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
                    149:        dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
                    150:        dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
1.128     he        151:        before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
                    152:        ftp-proxy are the victims).
1.127     christos  153:
1.125     atatat    154: 20040715:
                    155:        The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
                    156:        if sendmail should be started at boot time.  It checks the
                    157:        contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
                    158:        owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
                    159:        to the mail infrastructure have been made.  If no changes
                    160:        are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
                    161:
                    162:        Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
                    163:
                    164:        If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
                    165:        local delivery, it is important that you also update your
                    166:        sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
                    167:        loopback interface.
                    168:
                    169: 20040715:
                    170:        The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
                    171:        kernel builds has been changed again.  The latest version
                    172:        of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
                    173:
1.124     jmc       174: 20040621:
                    175:        Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
                    176:        from a clean objdir under tools/*.
                    177:
                    178:        This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
1.125     atatat    179:        to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
1.124     jmc       180:
                    181:        The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
                    182:
1.121     lukem     183: 20040516:
                    184:        The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
                    185:        from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<dir> to /etc/X11/<dir>.
                    186:        Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
                    187:        "make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
                    188:
1.126     lukem     189:        postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
                    190:        /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
                    191:        detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
                    192:        manually move these files yourself.
                    193:
1.119     atatat    194: 20040426:
                    195:        Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
                    196:        been removed in favor of the newer layout.  This affects
                    197:        consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
                    198:        the dynamic discovery mechanism.  This is believed only to
                    199:        be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
                    200:        the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
                    201:        built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
                    202:        will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
                    203:        2004/04/25.  If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
                    204:        does not work, make sure that your revision of
1.120     atatat    205:        src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
                    206:        do the following:
1.119     atatat    207:
1.120     atatat    208:        cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
                    209:        make USETOOLS=no includes
                    210:        cd lib/libc
                    211:        make USETOOLS=no dependall install
                    212:        cd ../../sbin/sysctl
1.119     atatat    213:        make USETOOLS=no dependall install
                    214:
1.122     itojun    215:        If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
                    216:        identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
                    217:        "unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that.  if that happens,
                    218:        make sure to follow the above steps.
                    219:
1.118     dbj       220: 20040425:
                    221:        The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
                    222:        are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
                    223:        sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
                    224:        invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
                    225:        automated by those scripts.  Note that under certain circumstances,
                    226:        affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
                    227:        upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
                    228:        encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
                    229:        filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
                    230:        possible.  For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
                    231:
1.115     christos  232: 20040418:
1.121     lukem     233:        statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
1.115     christos  234:        installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
                    235:        a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
                    236:        build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
                    237:        clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
1.116     christos  238:        anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
                    239:        from the libc build directory.
1.115     christos  240:
1.114     jmc       241: 20040326:
                    242:        The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
1.117     jmc       243:        has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
1.114     jmc       244:        and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
                    245:        to build it.
                    246:
                    247:        This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
                    248:        building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
                    249:
1.113     dan       250: 20040318:
                    251:        A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
                    252:        provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
                    253:        notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
                    254:        ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
                    255:        recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
                    256:        (recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
                    257:
1.108     bjh21     258: 20040313:
                    259:        On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
                    260:        the old wsqms driver is now called qms.  Kernel config files
                    261:        will need updating.  See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
                    262:        for examples.
                    263:
1.106     bjh21     264: 20040125:
                    265:        On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
                    266:        needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
                    267:        files.
1.105     bjh21     268:
1.102     dbj       269: 20040109:
                    270:        Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
                    271:        added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
                    272:        when using those layouts.  If you have been using -current
                    273:        since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
1.110     dbj       274:        superblock mismatches.  To repair, make sure you have
1.111     simonb    275:        an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
1.109     dbj       276:        to complete the filesystem upgrade.  A message has
1.111     simonb    277:        been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
                    278:        See the following discussion for more information:
1.112     keihan    279:        http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
1.102     dbj       280:
1.99      mrg       281: 20031203:
1.100     keihan    282:        New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
1.99      mrg       283:        It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
                    284:        the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
1.98      wiz       285:
                    286: 20031111:
                    287:        A newer mkdep is needed.  Error noting that is
                    288:                cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
1.97      lukem     289:
                    290: 20031008:
                    291:        /usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
                    292:        It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
                    293:        the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
1.96      christos  294:
1.109     dbj       295: 20031007:
1.153   ! reed      296:        A sign extension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
1.111     simonb    297:        of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags.  This should only
                    298:        affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
1.109     dbj       299:        A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
1.111     simonb    300:        should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
                    301:        to the kernel which should discover and warn about it.  See
                    302:        http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
1.109     dbj       303:
1.96      christos  304: 20030906:
                    305:        With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
                    306:        code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
                    307:        kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
1.94      christos  308:
                    309: 20030801:
1.95      wiz       310:        With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
1.94      christos  311:        rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
1.95      wiz       312:        /usr/lib/libdes* before building.
1.92      wiz       313:
                    314: 20030703:
                    315:        Texinfo was updated to 4.6.  To avoid failures when trying to
                    316:        build the included texinfo files, do:
                    317:
                    318:        cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
                    319:        make MKINFO=no dependall install
1.90      wiz       320:
                    321: 20030630:
1.101     junyoung  322:        Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
1.91      wiz       323:                cd share/mk && make install
1.90      wiz       324:                cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
                    325:                make MKMAN=no dependall install
                    326:        (untested).
1.89      christos  327:
                    328: 20030516:
                    329:        Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
                    330:        were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
                    331:        mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
                    332:        been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
                    333:        export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
                    334:        make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
                    335:        file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
                    336:        a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
1.87      bjh21     337:
                    338: 20030402:
                    339:        The superblock layout for FFS was changed.  If you have 1.6
                    340:        fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
                    341:        with the first alternate, because they compare too many
                    342:        fields (even ones that aren't useful).  If possible, upgrade
                    343:        your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
                    344:        None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
1.85      atatat    345:
                    346: 20030324:
                    347:        sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported.  Since sendmail is
                    348:        now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
                    349:        mode for most common activities, there is a new config
                    350:        file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
                    351:        The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
                    352:        is named netbsd-msp.cf.  Upgrading your regular sendmail
                    353:        configuration file is also strongly advised.
                    354:
                    355:        See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
                    356:        the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
                    357:        information.
1.82      wiz       358:
                    359: 20030117:
                    360:        Texinfo was updated to 4.3.  To avoid failures when trying to
                    361:        build the included texinfo files, do:
                    362:
                    363:        cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
                    364:        make MKINFO=no dependall install
1.81      lukem     365:
                    366: 20021223:
                    367:        The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
                    368:        "${DESTDIR}" from path names.
                    369:        This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
                    370:        For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
                    371:        update tools/mtree, before running make build.
1.88      itojun    372:
                    373: 20021219:
                    374:        CVS repository layout was changed.  See the following for details
                    375:        if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
                    376:
1.93      salo      377:        http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
1.80      lukem     378:
                    379: 20021219:
                    380:        install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
                    381:        alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
                    382:        of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
                    383:
                    384:        The build system was modified to take advantage of
                    385:        this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
1.83      kei       386:        use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
1.80      lukem     387:        reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
1.78      lukem     388:
                    389: 20021130:
                    390:        fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
                    391:        If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
                    392:        and rebuild libc:
                    393:                make includes
                    394:                make do-lib-libc
                    395:        If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
                    396:        before rebuilding the tools.
1.77      lukem     397:
                    398: 20021126:
                    399:        The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
                    400:        including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
                    401:        All header files, including <sys/*.h> are copied into
                    402:        /usr/include.
1.76      thorpej   403:
                    404: 20021121:
                    405:        The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
                    406:        (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
                    407:        split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
                    408:        This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
                    409:        new libraries are installed.  The process of rebuilding
                    410:        libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
                    411:        required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
                    412:        do this.
                    413:
                    414:        An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
                    415:        which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
1.153   ! reed      416:        their global constructors/destructors will not be invoked.
1.75      thorpej   417:
                    418: 20021121:
                    419:        A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
                    420:        corrected.
                    421:
                    422:        NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
                    423:        default.  However, the assembler lacked support for marking
                    424:        objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
1.79      wiz       425:        compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
1.75      thorpej   426:        to the assembler.
                    427:
                    428:        Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
                    429:        old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
                    430:        incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
                    431:
                    432:        The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
                    433:        a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
                    434:        against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
                    435:        markings.  ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
                    436:        WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
                    437:
                    438:        The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
                    439:        the libraries on the system.  The easiest way to do this for
1.79      wiz       440:        system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
1.93      salo      441:        generally available on releng.NetBSD.org.  Any packages you
1.75      thorpej   442:        have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
                    443:        if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
                    444:
                    445:        If you have questions about this matter, please contact
1.93      salo      446:        port-arm@NetBSD.org.
1.73      provos    447:
                    448: 20021011:
                    449:        Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
                    450:        Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
1.79      wiz       451:        to be rebuilt.
1.72      thorpej   452:
                    453: 20021010:
                    454:        The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
                    455:        dependencies on attributes, as well as other options.  Users
                    456:        must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
                    457:        kernel.
1.70      thorpej   458:
                    459: 20021009:
                    460:        A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
                    461:        which is now used by the SCSI configuration description.  Users
1.71      wiz       462:        must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
1.70      thorpej   463:        kernel.
1.69      thorpej   464:
                    465: 20021003:
                    466:        Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
                    467:        framework.  Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
                    468:        before building a new kernel.
1.74      jschauma  469:
                    470: 20021001:
                    471:        The i386mp branch has been merged.  To compile a kernel, users
                    472:        will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
                    473:        file.  Multiprocessor kernels will need
                    474:        ioapic*         at mainbus? apid ?
                    475:        options         MULTIPROCESSOR
                    476:        options         COM_MPLOCK
1.68      lukem     477:
                    478: 20020922:
                    479:        MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
                    480:        certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
                    481:        linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
                    482:        and /sbin are dynamically linked.
                    483:        If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
                    484:        you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
                    485:        with:
                    486:                make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
1.67      lukem     487:
                    488: 20020917:
                    489:        USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
                    490:            -   TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
                    491:                there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
                    492:                x86_64).
                    493:            -   EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
1.79      wiz       494:                root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu).  This
1.67      lukem     495:                enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
                    496:                platforms.
1.66      gehenna   497:
                    498: 20020906:
                    499:        gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
1.79      wiz       500:        reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
1.65      lukem     501:
                    502: 20020822:
                    503:        Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
                    504:        are now provided in /rescue.
                    505:
                    506:        To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
                    507:        what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
                    508:        from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
                    509:
                    510: 20020820:
                    511:        crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
                    512:        is statically linked.
                    513:
                    514:        Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
1.84      grant     515:
                    516: 20020605:
                    517:        smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
                    518:
                    519:        Add the following into /etc/group:
                    520:
                    521:        smmsp:*:17:
                    522:
                    523:        and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
                    524:
                    525:        smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
1.61      itojun    526:
                    527: 20020515:
                    528:        sshd user/group has been added.  Need to hand add this in, or sshd
1.153   ! reed      529:        will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivilegeSeparation=yes)
1.61      itojun    530:
                    531:        Add the following into /etc/group:
                    532:
                    533:        sshd:*:16:
                    534:
                    535:        and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
                    536:
1.63      enami     537:        sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
1.61      itojun    538:
1.79      wiz       539:        Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
                    540:        the build process).
1.60      sommerfe  541:
                    542: 20020426:
                    543:        NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
1.59      lukem     544:
                    545: 20020426:
                    546:        etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for
                    547:        configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
                    548:        the problems identified.
                    549:        This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
                    550:        configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
1.56      lukem     551:
                    552: 20020320:
1.79      wiz       553:        <bsd.lib.mk> needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
                    554:        Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
1.56      lukem     555:
1.55      itojun    556: 20020319:
1.79      wiz       557:        Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
                    558:        on send(2) operation.  Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
1.55      itojun    559:        newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
                    560:
1.54      itojun    561: 20020311:
                    562:        ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh.  Beware
                    563:        if you restart your machine from remote.  Note that sshd.conf needs
                    564:        to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
                    565:
                    566: 20020223:
1.53      matt      567:        Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
                    568:        so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
                    569:        the VAX assembly files.
                    570:
1.50      itojun    571: 20020118:
                    572:        ntpd user/group has been added.  Need to hand add this in or builds
                    573:        will break as mtree aborts early.
                    574:
                    575:        Add the following into /etc/group:
                    576:
                    577:        ntpd:*:15:
                    578:
                    579:        and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
                    580:
                    581:        ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
                    582:
1.49      jmc       583: 20011207:
                    584:        If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
                    585:        reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
                    586:        toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
                    587:
                    588:        To fix:
                    589:
                    590:        Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
                    591:        Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
                    592:
                    593:        gnu/lib/libgcc
1.51      pooka     594:        gnu/lib/libstdc++
1.49      jmc       595:
                    596:        After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
                    597:
1.47      jmc       598: 20011201:
                    599:        In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
                    600:        you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
1.52      wiz       601:        point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
1.47      jmc       602:        point is broken.
                    603:
                    604:        To build:
                    605:
                    606:        remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
                    607:        remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
1.48      jmc       608:        against the new libgcc.a)
1.47      jmc       609:
1.46      thorpej   610: 20011128:
                    611:        Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
                    612:        the various "files" files.  Bug fixes to config(8) are
                    613:        required in order for this to work properly.  Make sure
                    614:        to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
                    615:        to build a new kernel.
                    616:
1.45      yamt      617: 20011030:
                    618:        libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
                    619:        before building libc.
1.43      mason     620:
1.44      tv        621: 20011029:
                    622:        The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
                    623:        see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
                    624:        procedure in great detail.  BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
                    625:        build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
                    626:        manual update log.
                    627:
                    628:        Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
                    629:        BUILDING document for caveats.  Generally, BUILDING supersedes
                    630:        UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
                    631:        by the new build system.
1.42      perry     632:
                    633: 20011028:
                    634:        src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
                    635:        symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
                    636:        prevented this was corrected.
                    637:
                    638:        Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
                    639:        Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
                    640:        for you.
1.40      lukem     641:
                    642: 20011006:
                    643:        /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
                    644:        absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
                    645:        understand the format.
                    646:
                    647:        Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
1.39      jmc       648:
                    649: 20011004:
                    650:        Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
                    651:        is suggested before running a snapshot build
1.36      tv        652:
1.35      thorpej   653: 20010915:
                    654:        The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
                    655:        a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h.  There may be stale .depend
                    656:        files that still reference this file.
                    657:
                    658:        Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
                    659:        directories.
1.31      enami     660:
                    661: 20010803:
                    662:        grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo.  Since it
                    663:        requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
                    664:        building gnu/usr.bin/grep.  To install new texinfo, please follow
                    665:        the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
1.30      enami     666:
1.64      sommerfe  667: 20010803:
1.41      wiz       668:        (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
1.111     simonb    669:        `fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand.  To build the
1.64      sommerfe  670:        kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain,
                    671:        (i.e., build.sh -t) or  (temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU"
                    672:        from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
                    673:        See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
                    674:        [updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
1.29      bjh21     675:
                    676: 20010731:
                    677:        Bootloader update on ELF platforms.  DDB in kernels from before
                    678:        this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
                    679:        bootloaders.
1.27      assar     680:
                    681: 20010726:
                    682:        Texinfo was updated to 4.0.  To avoid failures when trying to
1.28      assar     683:        build the included texinfo files, do:
                    684:
                    685:        cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
                    686:        make MKINFO=no dependall install
1.25      thorpej   687:
                    688: 20010718:
                    689:        Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0.  The way this
                    690:        was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
                    691:        make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
                    692:        timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
                    693:
                    694:        The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
                    695:        if you have a stale dependency.
                    696:
                    697:        Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
                    698:        before starting your build.
1.26      thorpej   699:
                    700: 20010628:
                    701:        A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
                    702:        in lint(1).  If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
                    703:        bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
1.21      jmc       704:
                    705: 20010226:
1.22      jmc       706:        Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
1.21      jmc       707:        will break as mtree aborts early.
                    708:
                    709:        To work around add by hand:
                    710:
                    711:        named:*:14:
                    712:
1.22      jmc       713:        to /etc/group and add:
                    714:
                    715:        named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
                    716:
                    717:        to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
                    718:
                    719:        Now a make build should progress.
1.18      jmc       720:
                    721: 20010219:
1.52      wiz       722:        get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
1.111     simonb    723:        to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
1.18      jmc       724:
1.111     simonb    725:        Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
1.19      cgd       726:                        usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
                    727:                          CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
1.20      jmc       728:                        usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
1.111     simonb    729:                          building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
1.15      christos  730:
                    731: 20010204:
                    732:        prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
                    733:        particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
                    734:        needs to be installed before make build.
1.10      christos  735:
                    736: 20010114:
                    737:        introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
                    738:        bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
1.23      tron      739:        anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
1.10      christos  740:        with make build.
1.9       sommerfe  741:
                    742: 20010101:
                    743:        bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
                    744:        afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
1.8       sommerfe  745:
                    746: 20001230:
                    747:        New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
                    748:        If you get make errors,
                    749:                (cd share/mk; make install)
                    750:        Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
1.6       ad        751:
                    752: 20001019:
1.7       ad        753:        The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
1.6       ad        754:        major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
                    755:        directory.
1.1       abs       756:
1.4       itojun    757: 20000929:
                    758:        The following make directives are obsoleted.
                    759:        MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA
                    760:        By default, RSA is built into libcrypto.  IDEA and RC5 will not be
1.16      wiz       761:        built into libcrypto.  By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
1.4       itojun    762:        additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
1.1       abs       763:
                    764:
                    765: Hints for a more successful build:
                    766: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.123     jmc       767:     Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
1.132     jmmv      768:        This will automatically build the tools in the
1.123     jmc       769:           correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
                    770:           new build products from interfering with the running
                    771:           system.  This will allow you to ignore most of the
                    772:           other advice in this file.
1.2       mrg       773:     Build a new kernel first:
                    774:        This makes sure that any new system calls or features
                    775:           expected by the new userland will be present.  This
                    776:           helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
1.1       abs       777:     Use object directories:
                    778:        This helps to keep stale object
                    779:           files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
                    780:           about one.  It also makes it easier to clean up after
                    781:           a build.  It's also necessary if you want to use the
                    782:           same source tree for multiple machines.
1.123     jmc       783:           To use object directories with build.sh:
                    784:            a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
                    785:           To use object directories without using build.sh:
1.1       abs       786:            a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
1.2       mrg       787:            b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
                    788:            c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
1.1       abs       789:            d) cd /usr/src ; make build
1.2       mrg       790:           Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
                    791:           in obj.$MACHINE directory.
1.1       abs       792:     Build to a DESTDIR:
1.123     jmc       793:        This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
                    794:           from interfering with the new build.
                    795:           To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
                    796:           To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
                    797:           environment variable before running make build.  It should be
                    798:           set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
                    799:           Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
                    800:                update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
                    801:                nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
                    802:                (See critical utils, below.)
1.1       abs       803:     Build often:
                    804:        This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
                    805:        on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
1.123     jmc       806:        date functionality.  If you use build.sh, you should not have
                    807:        this problem.
1.1       abs       808:
                    809: What to do if things don't work:
                    810: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                    811: When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
                    812: should be done.
                    813:     1) make includes
                    814:        This should be done automatically by make build.
                    815:     2)  cd share/mk && make install
                    816:        Again, automatically done by make build.
                    817:
                    818: Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
                    819: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                    820: To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
                    821: something like the following:
                    822:     1)  Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
                    823:     2)  Make sure any program used to build the particular
                    824:        utility is up to date.  (yacc, lex, etc...)
                    825:     3)  cd ...path/to/util...
                    826:        make cleandir
                    827:        rm ...all obj directories...
                    828:        make cleandir                   # yes, again
                    829:        make obj
                    830:        make depend && make
                    831:
                    832: Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
                    833: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                    834: If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
1.2       mrg       835: ready for a build try the following.  Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
                    836: (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
                    837: for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
1.1       abs       838:
                    839: ---cut here---
                    840: #!/bin/sh
                    841: . /etc/mk.conf
                    842:
1.58      lukem     843: if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
                    844:     NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
1.1       abs       845: fi
1.58      lukem     846: if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
1.1       abs       847:     echo Unable to find sources
                    848:     exit 1
                    849: fi
1.58      lukem     850: find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
1.1       abs       851:
                    852: if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
                    853:     BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
                    854: fi
                    855: if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
                    856:     rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
                    857: fi
                    858:
1.58      lukem     859: cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
1.1       abs       860:
                    861: ---cut here---
                    862:
                    863: Critical utilities:
                    864: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.3       itojun    865:        usr.bin/compile_et
1.1       abs       866:        usr.bin/make
                    867:        usr.bin/yacc
                    868:        usr.bin/lex
1.11      lukem     869:        usr.bin/xlint
1.142     drochner  870:        usr.bin/config
1.1       abs       871:
1.34      simonb    872: Other problems and possible solutions:
1.1       abs       873: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                    874: Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
1.17      erh       875: Fix:   Rebuild usr.bin/make:
                    876:        cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
1.111     simonb    877:        Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
1.17      erh       878:        cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
                    879:
1.1       abs       880: Fix:   Make sure .mk files are up to date.
                    881:        cd share/mk && make install
1.2       mrg       882:
                    883: Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
1.142     drochner  884: Fix:   Rebuild usr.bin/config
1.1       abs       885:
                    886: Symptom:
                    887: Fix:   Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
                    888:
                    889: Symptom:
                    890: Fix:   Rebuild usr.bin/lex
                    891:
                    892: Symptom:
                    893: Fix:   rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
1.4       itojun    894:
                    895: Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
                    896: Fix:   Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
                    897:        make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
                    898:        (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
                    899:        may remain.  The command tries to clean everything up)
1.5       wiz       900:
                    901: Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
                    902: Fix:   Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
1.12      itojun    903:
                    904: Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
                    905: Fix:   Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
1.13      dogcow    906:
1.86      kleink    907: Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
1.13      dogcow    908: Fix:    Rebuild and install lib/libc
                    909:
1.142     drochner  910: Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
1.19      cgd       911: Fix:   Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
1.13      dogcow    912:
1.19      cgd       913: Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
                    914: Fix:    Rebuild and install lib/libc
1.24      abs       915:
                    916: Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
                    917: Fix:    May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint

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