Annotation of src/UPDATING, Revision 1.198
1.198 ! mrg 1: $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.197 2009/06/21 20:08:36 mrg 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:
1.198 ! mrg 19: 20090709:
! 20: Native Xorg was upgraded again. Builds will probably fail again
! 21: without a clean objdir, at least for src/external/mit/xorg.
! 22:
1.197 mrg 23: 20090616:
24: Native Xorg was upgraded. Builds will need a clean objdir for
25: src/external/mit/xorg. Upgrading a system from sets will not
26: work properly yet as the /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
27: subdirectory has been changed into a file, and this needs to
28: be manually "rm -r"'ed before installing xbase.tgz.
29:
1.195 perry 30: 20090501:
31: Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this
32: can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people
33: who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you
34: note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a
35: failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools
36: objects and start again.
37:
1.194 mrg 38: 20090325:
39: The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires
40: cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them.
41:
1.192 skrll 42: 20090126:
1.193 skrll 43: The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You need to
44: 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory to avoid using
1.192 skrll 45: the old assembly stub.
46:
1.191 joerg 47: 20090202:
48: pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
49: detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
50: ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
51:
1.184 christos 52: 20090110:
53: time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade:
54: 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install.
1.188 christos 55: This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is
56: conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c.
1.184 christos 57: 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work
58: before installing.
59: 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and
1.187 dholland 60: your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers
1.184 christos 61: are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc
62: and libutil, install them and then continue building all the
63: libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once
64: the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build.
65: 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings,
1.189 hubertf 66: rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries.
67: Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages
68: that depend on it.
1.186 christos 69: 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file
70: will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible.
1.190 apb 71: 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see
72: lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic
73: for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after
74: upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during
75: boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by
76: newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the
77: files manually.
78: 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see
79: accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be
80: removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by
81: /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove
82: the file.
1.196 dholland 83: 8. Application software that writes time_t to binary files on
84: disk will break or need attention. Most notably: if you are
85: using PostgreSQL < 8.4, you need to dump your databases,
86: rebuild PostgreSQL with the new time_t, then restore.
1.185 jmcneill 87:
1.183 pgoyette 88: 20081219:
89: config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates -
90: swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config
91: (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun
92: config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those
93: kernels.
94:
1.181 cube 95: 20081205:
96: If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and
97: /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc
98: set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds.
1.178 lukem 99:
1.179 tsutsui 100: 20081122:
1.182 tsutsui 101: On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including
1.180 wiz 102: file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules.
103: Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the
1.179 tsutsui 104: following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel:
105:
106: - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules
107:
108: - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module
1.180 wiz 109: for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically
1.179 tsutsui 110:
1.180 wiz 111: If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of
112: the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary
113: file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file.
1.179 tsutsui 114:
1.178 lukem 115: 20080827:
116: If you built and installed a libc from sources between
117: 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3)
118: which results in false errors reported by lint(1).
119: Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is
1.180 wiz 120: needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.:
1.178 lukem 121: $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install)
122:
1.177 christos 123: 20080813:
124: MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know
125: about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild.
126:
1.175 simonb 127: 20080731:
128: WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this
129: time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels
130: and userland (fsck_ffs in particular). Please make sure you
131: don't use a journaled filesystem with an older kernel/userland,
1.176 simonb 132: especially an uncleanly mounted journaled filesystem. WAPBL
133: also requires the super block to be in the UFS2 format. You
134: can use fsck_ffs -c 4 to update the superblock format.
1.175 simonb 135:
1.174 lukem 136: 20080721:
137: Assembler warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0 and $NOGCCERROR
138: isn't defined.
139:
1.173 freza 140: 20080531:
141: The ioctl number of DRVSUSPENDDEV command on /dev/drvctl changed
142: from 125 (conflicted with DRVCTLCOMMAND) to 129. The drvctl(8)
143: utility needs to be rebuilt and reinstalled as older binaries
144: won't work correctly. The following sequence of commands:
145:
146: $ (cd sys/sys/ && nbmake-$arch includes)
147: $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch clean)
148: $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch all)
149:
150: leaves new drvctl utility in sbin/drvctl build directory.
151:
1.172 lukem 152: 20080503:
153: The <bsd.lib.mk> variable MKPRIVATELIB was renamed to LIBISPRIVATE.
154:
1.171 he 155: 20080521:
156: For a while, unprivileged UPDATE builds would fail to
157: succeed at the checkflist stage, complaining that
158: ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>/ did not exist. A fix for this
159: problem was committed to share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk, revision 1.9.
160: If you already hit this problem, update the .mk file,
161: remove ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>, and re-run the build.
162:
1.174 lukem 163: 20080303:
164: Linker warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0.
165:
1.170 christos 166: 20080126:
167: The posix_fadvise system call has been changed from an assembly
168: stub, to a c file that calls an assembly stub. You need to
169: 'rm -f posix_fadvise.* .depend' in the libc build directory to
170: avoid using the old assembly stub.
171:
1.168 joerg 172: 20071209:
173: The acpiec(4) driver has been split into two attachments. If you
174: get ACPI errors before the attachment, please update your kernel
1.169 wiz 175: configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
1.168 joerg 176:
1.166 xtraeme 177: 20071115:
178: The it(4) driver has been renamed to itesio(4) and the old port
179: argument specified in the kernel configuration file is not valid
180: anymore. The itesio(4) driver now uses the Super I/O address port
181: rather than the EC address port. Please update your kernel
1.167 wiz 182: configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
1.166 xtraeme 183:
1.165 jmmv 184: 20071028:
185: The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.
186: You need to update any custom kernel configuration file you have
187: to remove any references to pccons (which includes removing the
188: now useless XSERVER option) and replace them with the correct
189: entries for the wscons driver. See the GENERIC configuration file
190: for more details.
191:
1.164 gdt 192: 20070913:
193: A latent bug in dhclient/dhcpd that caused it to be unable to
194: enumerate interfaces was fixed. The bug began to cause
195: problems after 20070911 when the kernel's SIOCGIFCONF
196: implementation was repaired. From 20070529 to 20070911 racoon
197: could not enumerate interfaces. (These are noted because
198: normal kernel/userspace version matching hygiene is not
199: sufficient to avoid this problem.) Ensure that both kernel
200: and userland are from after 20070913.
201:
1.163 joerg 202: 20070703:
203: nbinstall has been renamed as it calls the target specific and
204: the logic to pass down STRIP from mk been removed. This forces
205: a re-installation of tools.
206:
1.161 dsl 207: 20070422:
208: The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
209: has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
210: to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
211: root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
1.167 wiz 212: root file system will be relative to that file system - unless they
1.161 dsl 213: start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
214: that has such links.
215: This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
216: the emulated root.
217:
1.160 jmcneill 218: 20070412:
219: The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
220: instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
221: example.
222:
1.159 gdt 223: 20070319:
224: src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
225: on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
226: updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
227: cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
228: rebuild of object files that might have been built
229: incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
230: src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
231:
1.158 dbj 232: 20070210:
233: src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
234: find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
235: | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
236: will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
237:
1.157 apb 238: 20070209:
239: The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
240: was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
241: kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
242: library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
243: an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
244: (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
245: the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
246: continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
247: is the only threaded application in the base system.
248:
1.154 he 249: 20061214:
250: Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
251: from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
252: will need to do a "make cleandir" in
253: tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
254: bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
1.156 he 255: usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
256: as the installation images in distrib/
1.154 he 257: in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
258: file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
259:
1.152 christos 260: 20061108:
261: The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
262: changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
263: does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
264: make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
265:
1.151 rpaulo 266: 20061009:
267: The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
268: available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
269:
1.150 bjh21 270: 20060814:
271: The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
272: withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
273: kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
274: few years should cope.
275:
1.149 christos 276: 20060703:
277: MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
278: if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
279: to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
280:
1.148 dogcow 281: 20060627:
282: socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
283: For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
284: your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
285: errors will result.
286:
1.1 abs 287: Hints for a more successful build:
288: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.123 jmc 289: Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
1.132 jmmv 290: This will automatically build the tools in the
1.123 jmc 291: correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
292: new build products from interfering with the running
293: system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
294: other advice in this file.
1.2 mrg 295: Build a new kernel first:
296: This makes sure that any new system calls or features
297: expected by the new userland will be present. This
298: helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
1.1 abs 299: Use object directories:
300: This helps to keep stale object
301: files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
302: about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
303: a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
304: same source tree for multiple machines.
1.123 jmc 305: To use object directories with build.sh:
306: a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
307: To use object directories without using build.sh:
1.1 abs 308: a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
1.2 mrg 309: b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
310: c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
1.1 abs 311: d) cd /usr/src ; make build
1.2 mrg 312: Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
313: in obj.$MACHINE directory.
1.1 abs 314: Build to a DESTDIR:
1.123 jmc 315: This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
316: from interfering with the new build.
317: To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
318: To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
319: environment variable before running make build. It should be
320: set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
321: Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
322: update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
323: nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
324: (See critical utils, below.)
1.1 abs 325: Build often:
326: This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
327: on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
1.123 jmc 328: date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
329: this problem.
1.1 abs 330:
331: What to do if things don't work:
332: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
333: When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
334: should be done.
335: 1) make includes
336: This should be done automatically by make build.
337: 2) cd share/mk && make install
338: Again, automatically done by make build.
339:
340: Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
341: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
342: To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
343: something like the following:
344: 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
345: 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
346: utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
347: 3) cd ...path/to/util...
348: make cleandir
349: rm ...all obj directories...
350: make cleandir # yes, again
351: make obj
352: make depend && make
353:
354: Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
355: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
356: If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
1.2 mrg 357: ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
358: (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
359: for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
1.1 abs 360:
361: ---cut here---
362: #!/bin/sh
363: . /etc/mk.conf
364:
1.58 lukem 365: if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
366: NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
1.1 abs 367: fi
1.58 lukem 368: if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
1.1 abs 369: echo Unable to find sources
370: exit 1
371: fi
1.58 lukem 372: find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
1.1 abs 373:
374: if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
375: BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
376: fi
377: if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
378: rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
379: fi
380:
1.58 lukem 381: cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
1.1 abs 382:
383: ---cut here---
384:
385: Critical utilities:
386: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.3 itojun 387: usr.bin/compile_et
1.1 abs 388: usr.bin/make
389: usr.bin/yacc
390: usr.bin/lex
1.11 lukem 391: usr.bin/xlint
1.142 drochner 392: usr.bin/config
1.1 abs 393:
1.34 simonb 394: Other problems and possible solutions:
1.1 abs 395: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
396: Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
1.17 erh 397: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
398: cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
1.111 simonb 399: Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
1.17 erh 400: cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
401:
1.1 abs 402: Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
403: cd share/mk && make install
1.2 mrg 404:
405: Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
1.142 drochner 406: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
1.1 abs 407:
408: Symptom:
409: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
410:
411: Symptom:
412: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
413:
414: Symptom:
415: Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
1.4 itojun 416:
417: Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
418: Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
419: make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
420: (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
421: may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
1.5 wiz 422:
423: Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
424: Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
1.12 itojun 425:
426: Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
427: Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
1.13 dogcow 428:
1.86 kleink 429: Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
1.13 dogcow 430: Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
431:
1.142 drochner 432: Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
1.19 cgd 433: Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
1.13 dogcow 434:
1.19 cgd 435: Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
436: Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
1.24 abs 437:
438: Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
439: Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
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