Annotation of src/UPDATING, Revision 1.210
1.210 ! christos 1: $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.209 2010/02/22 12:35:32 njoly 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:
1.210 ! christos 19: 20100520:
! 20: The location of the xkb compiled descriptions has changed. Please
! 21: remove usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled from your $DESTDIR.
! 22:
! 23:
1.209 njoly 24: 20100222:
25: The shared objects file extension has been changed from .so to
26: .pico, in order to avoid conflicts with shared libraries names
27: libXX.so. All now stale regular .so files can be removed from
28: your object directories.
29:
1.208 roy 30: 20100204:
31: The termcap database has been removed from the sources,
32: but has not been marked obsolete so it is not removed
33: from the system when upgrading.
34: As such, you will need to remove them from your object
35: and destination directories.
36:
1.203 dyoung 37: 20091101:
1.205 dholland 38: After updating, it may be necessary to make the 'cleandir'
39: target in src/tools/yacc/ and in src/usr.bin/yacc/ before a
40: 'build.sh -u tools' or 'build.sh -u distribution'. Ditto
41: src/tools/lex/ and src/usr.bin/lex/.
1.203 dyoung 42:
1.202 mrg 43: 20091001:
1.206 dholland 44: On amd64 you must rebuild tools (to get the new binutils)
45: before building a kernel, or the build fails on cpufunc.S.
46:
47: 20091001:
1.202 mrg 48: An error will create a ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/xkb
49: symlink, failing the build. Delete the link, and the subdir
50: it is in, and retry your build.
51:
1.201 dsl 52: 20090718:
53: libc build changed so that strchr() provides the extra entry
54: point for index(). Update build of libc.a (and libc_pic.a)
55: may fail because the archive contains the unwanted index.o.
56: (Similarly for strrchr() and rindex().)
57:
1.198 mrg 58: 20090709:
59: Native Xorg was upgraded again. Builds will probably fail again
60: without a clean objdir, at least for src/external/mit/xorg.
61:
1.197 mrg 62: 20090616:
63: Native Xorg was upgraded. Builds will need a clean objdir for
64: src/external/mit/xorg. Upgrading a system from sets will not
65: work properly yet as the /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
66: subdirectory has been changed into a file, and this needs to
67: be manually "rm -r"'ed before installing xbase.tgz.
68:
1.195 perry 69: 20090501:
70: Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this
71: can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people
72: who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you
73: note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a
74: failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools
75: objects and start again.
76:
1.194 mrg 77: 20090325:
78: The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires
79: cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them.
80:
1.192 skrll 81: 20090126:
1.207 mbalmer 82: The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You
83: need to 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory
84: to avoid using the old assembly stub.
1.192 skrll 85:
1.191 joerg 86: 20090202:
87: pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
88: detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
89: ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
90:
1.184 christos 91: 20090110:
92: time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade:
93: 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install.
1.188 christos 94: This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is
95: conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c.
1.184 christos 96: 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work
97: before installing.
98: 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and
1.187 dholland 99: your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers
1.184 christos 100: are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc
101: and libutil, install them and then continue building all the
102: libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once
103: the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build.
104: 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings,
1.189 hubertf 105: rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries.
106: Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages
107: that depend on it.
1.186 christos 108: 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file
109: will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible.
1.190 apb 110: 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see
111: lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic
112: for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after
113: upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during
114: boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by
115: newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the
116: files manually.
117: 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see
118: accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be
119: removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by
120: /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove
121: the file.
1.196 dholland 122: 8. Application software that writes time_t to binary files on
123: disk will break or need attention. Most notably: if you are
124: using PostgreSQL < 8.4, you need to dump your databases,
125: rebuild PostgreSQL with the new time_t, then restore.
1.185 jmcneill 126:
1.183 pgoyette 127: 20081219:
128: config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates -
129: swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config
130: (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun
131: config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those
132: kernels.
133:
1.181 cube 134: 20081205:
135: If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and
136: /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc
137: set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds.
1.178 lukem 138:
1.179 tsutsui 139: 20081122:
1.182 tsutsui 140: On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including
1.180 wiz 141: file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules.
142: Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the
1.179 tsutsui 143: following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel:
144:
145: - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules
146:
147: - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module
1.180 wiz 148: for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically
1.179 tsutsui 149:
1.180 wiz 150: If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of
151: the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary
152: file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file.
1.179 tsutsui 153:
1.178 lukem 154: 20080827:
155: If you built and installed a libc from sources between
156: 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3)
157: which results in false errors reported by lint(1).
158: Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is
1.180 wiz 159: needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.:
1.178 lukem 160: $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install)
161:
1.177 christos 162: 20080813:
163: MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know
164: about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild.
165:
1.200 dholland 166: 20080802:
167: A regression in binary compatibility for pthread_mutex_t has
168: been fixed. Unfortunately, the price is breaking compatibility
169: for -current.
170:
171: Threaded programs (using libpthread) and C++ programs (using
172: libstdc++) compiled after 20070907 and before 20080802 need to
173: be recompiled.
174:
175: One way to find affected pkgsrc packages:
176:
177: $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libpthread /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
178: $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libstdc++ /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
179:
1.175 simonb 180: 20080731:
181: WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this
182: time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels
183: and userland (fsck_ffs in particular). Please make sure you
184: don't use a journaled filesystem with an older kernel/userland,
1.176 simonb 185: especially an uncleanly mounted journaled filesystem. WAPBL
186: also requires the super block to be in the UFS2 format. You
187: can use fsck_ffs -c 4 to update the superblock format.
1.175 simonb 188:
1.174 lukem 189: 20080721:
190: Assembler warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0 and $NOGCCERROR
191: isn't defined.
192:
1.173 freza 193: 20080531:
194: The ioctl number of DRVSUSPENDDEV command on /dev/drvctl changed
195: from 125 (conflicted with DRVCTLCOMMAND) to 129. The drvctl(8)
196: utility needs to be rebuilt and reinstalled as older binaries
197: won't work correctly. The following sequence of commands:
198:
199: $ (cd sys/sys/ && nbmake-$arch includes)
200: $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch clean)
201: $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch all)
202:
203: leaves new drvctl utility in sbin/drvctl build directory.
204:
1.172 lukem 205: 20080503:
206: The <bsd.lib.mk> variable MKPRIVATELIB was renamed to LIBISPRIVATE.
207:
1.171 he 208: 20080521:
209: For a while, unprivileged UPDATE builds would fail to
210: succeed at the checkflist stage, complaining that
211: ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>/ did not exist. A fix for this
212: problem was committed to share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk, revision 1.9.
213: If you already hit this problem, update the .mk file,
214: remove ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>, and re-run the build.
215:
1.174 lukem 216: 20080303:
217: Linker warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0.
218:
1.170 christos 219: 20080126:
220: The posix_fadvise system call has been changed from an assembly
221: stub, to a c file that calls an assembly stub. You need to
222: 'rm -f posix_fadvise.* .depend' in the libc build directory to
223: avoid using the old assembly stub.
224:
1.168 joerg 225: 20071209:
226: The acpiec(4) driver has been split into two attachments. If you
227: get ACPI errors before the attachment, please update your kernel
1.169 wiz 228: configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
1.168 joerg 229:
1.166 xtraeme 230: 20071115:
231: The it(4) driver has been renamed to itesio(4) and the old port
232: argument specified in the kernel configuration file is not valid
233: anymore. The itesio(4) driver now uses the Super I/O address port
234: rather than the EC address port. Please update your kernel
1.167 wiz 235: configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
1.166 xtraeme 236:
1.165 jmmv 237: 20071028:
238: The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.
239: You need to update any custom kernel configuration file you have
240: to remove any references to pccons (which includes removing the
241: now useless XSERVER option) and replace them with the correct
242: entries for the wscons driver. See the GENERIC configuration file
243: for more details.
244:
1.164 gdt 245: 20070913:
246: A latent bug in dhclient/dhcpd that caused it to be unable to
247: enumerate interfaces was fixed. The bug began to cause
248: problems after 20070911 when the kernel's SIOCGIFCONF
249: implementation was repaired. From 20070529 to 20070911 racoon
250: could not enumerate interfaces. (These are noted because
251: normal kernel/userspace version matching hygiene is not
252: sufficient to avoid this problem.) Ensure that both kernel
253: and userland are from after 20070913.
254:
1.163 joerg 255: 20070703:
1.199 dholland 256: nbinstall has been renamed ${MACHINE_GNU_ARCH}-install. It
257: calls the target-specific strip program, and the logic to pass
258: down STRIP from make has been removed. This requires a
259: re-installation of tools.
1.163 joerg 260:
1.161 dsl 261: 20070422:
262: The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
263: has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
264: to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
265: root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
1.167 wiz 266: root file system will be relative to that file system - unless they
1.161 dsl 267: start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
268: that has such links.
269: This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
270: the emulated root.
271:
1.160 jmcneill 272: 20070412:
273: The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
274: instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
275: example.
276:
1.159 gdt 277: 20070319:
278: src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
279: on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
280: updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
281: cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
282: rebuild of object files that might have been built
283: incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
284: src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
285:
1.158 dbj 286: 20070210:
287: src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
288: find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
289: | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
290: will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
291:
1.157 apb 292: 20070209:
293: The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
294: was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
295: kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
296: library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
297: an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
298: (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
299: the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
300: continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
301: is the only threaded application in the base system.
302:
1.154 he 303: 20061214:
304: Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
305: from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
306: will need to do a "make cleandir" in
307: tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
308: bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
1.156 he 309: usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
310: as the installation images in distrib/
1.154 he 311: in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
312: file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
313:
1.152 christos 314: 20061108:
315: The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
316: changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
317: does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
318: make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
319:
1.151 rpaulo 320: 20061009:
321: The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
322: available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
323:
1.150 bjh21 324: 20060814:
325: The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
326: withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
327: kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
328: few years should cope.
329:
1.149 christos 330: 20060703:
331: MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
332: if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
333: to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
334:
1.148 dogcow 335: 20060627:
336: socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
337: For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
338: your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
339: errors will result.
340:
1.1 abs 341: Hints for a more successful build:
342: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.123 jmc 343: Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
1.132 jmmv 344: This will automatically build the tools in the
1.123 jmc 345: correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
346: new build products from interfering with the running
347: system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
348: other advice in this file.
1.2 mrg 349: Build a new kernel first:
350: This makes sure that any new system calls or features
351: expected by the new userland will be present. This
352: helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
1.1 abs 353: Use object directories:
354: This helps to keep stale object
355: files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
356: about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
357: a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
358: same source tree for multiple machines.
1.123 jmc 359: To use object directories with build.sh:
360: a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
361: To use object directories without using build.sh:
1.1 abs 362: a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
1.2 mrg 363: b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
364: c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
1.1 abs 365: d) cd /usr/src ; make build
1.2 mrg 366: Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
367: in obj.$MACHINE directory.
1.1 abs 368: Build to a DESTDIR:
1.123 jmc 369: This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
370: from interfering with the new build.
371: To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
372: To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
373: environment variable before running make build. It should be
374: set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
375: Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
376: update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
377: nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
378: (See critical utils, below.)
1.1 abs 379: Build often:
380: This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
381: on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
1.123 jmc 382: date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
383: this problem.
1.1 abs 384:
385: What to do if things don't work:
386: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
387: When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
388: should be done.
389: 1) make includes
390: This should be done automatically by make build.
391: 2) cd share/mk && make install
392: Again, automatically done by make build.
393:
394: Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
395: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
396: To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
397: something like the following:
398: 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
399: 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
400: utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
401: 3) cd ...path/to/util...
402: make cleandir
403: rm ...all obj directories...
404: make cleandir # yes, again
405: make obj
406: make depend && make
407:
408: Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
409: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
410: If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
1.2 mrg 411: ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
412: (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
413: for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
1.1 abs 414:
415: ---cut here---
416: #!/bin/sh
417: . /etc/mk.conf
418:
1.58 lukem 419: if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
420: NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
1.1 abs 421: fi
1.58 lukem 422: if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
1.1 abs 423: echo Unable to find sources
424: exit 1
425: fi
1.58 lukem 426: find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
1.1 abs 427:
428: if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
429: BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
430: fi
431: if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
432: rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
433: fi
434:
1.58 lukem 435: cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
1.1 abs 436:
437: ---cut here---
438:
439: Critical utilities:
440: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.3 itojun 441: usr.bin/compile_et
1.1 abs 442: usr.bin/make
443: usr.bin/yacc
444: usr.bin/lex
1.11 lukem 445: usr.bin/xlint
1.142 drochner 446: usr.bin/config
1.1 abs 447:
1.34 simonb 448: Other problems and possible solutions:
1.1 abs 449: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
450: Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
1.17 erh 451: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
452: cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
1.111 simonb 453: Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
1.17 erh 454: cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
455:
1.1 abs 456: Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
457: cd share/mk && make install
1.2 mrg 458:
459: Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
1.142 drochner 460: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
1.1 abs 461:
462: Symptom:
463: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
464:
465: Symptom:
466: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
467:
468: Symptom:
469: Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
1.4 itojun 470:
471: Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
472: Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
473: make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
474: (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
475: may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
1.5 wiz 476:
1.207 mbalmer 477: Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible
478: pointer type
1.5 wiz 479: Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
1.12 itojun 480:
481: Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
482: Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
1.13 dogcow 483:
1.86 kleink 484: Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
1.13 dogcow 485: Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
486:
1.142 drochner 487: Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
1.19 cgd 488: Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
1.13 dogcow 489:
1.19 cgd 490: Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
491: Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
1.24 abs 492:
493: Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
494: Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
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