Annotation of src/UPDATING, Revision 1.229.2.4
1.229.2.4! yamt 1: $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.229.2.3 2012/10/30 18:46:04 yamt 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: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.229.2.1 yamt 18:
1.229.2.4! yamt 19: 20140131:
! 20: The new compiler_rt/libc integration moved a few things. It is strongly
! 21: advised to do a clean build. At least lib/libc, the compat version(s)
! 22: of libc, libkern, rump and the kernels need to be cleaned.
! 23:
! 24: 20131227:
! 25: 1. The new ntpd runs in a restricted mode to prevent amplification
! 26: attacks. If you need ntpdc to work you need to explicitly enable
! 27: mode7 in your config file. Make sure you put the necessary restrict
! 28: statements to avoid being exposed.
! 29: 2. strncat has moved from lib/libc to common/lib/libc; you might need
! 30: to make clean in libc
! 31:
! 32: 20131129:
! 33: The GMP sources were updated, and builds will likely fail without
! 34: cleaning their build trees for both tools and in-tree, like below.
! 35:
! 36: 20131128:
! 37: The MPC and MPFR sources were updated, and builds may require their
! 38: tools and in-tree directories cleaned for successful updates.
! 39:
! 40: 20130605:
! 41: The kernel option FAST_IPSEC no longer exists, it's been renamed
! 42: to IPSEC (and the older IPSEC version removed).
! 43:
! 44: 20130605:
! 45: Previous freetype installations eroneously installed private
! 46: header files. If you are building against a non-empty $DESTDIR,
! 47: please remove ${DESTDIR}//usr/X11R7/include/freetype2/freetype/.
! 48:
! 49: 20130531:
! 50: The xdm update may cause build failure due to xdm.man being
! 51: in the obj tree. Make sure to ensure any like this:
! 52: nbmake: nbmake: don't know how to make xdm.man. Stop
! 53: is fixed by deleting the xdm.man in the obj tree.
! 54:
! 55: 20130530:
! 56: Updates of many xsrc packages will leave old .pc files around.
! 57: Best to clean out the xsrc objdir entirely before rebuilds.
! 58:
! 59: 20130301:
! 60: The removal of netiso requires manual removal of /usr/include/netiso
! 61: prior to the build and make cleandir in /usr/src/usr.bin/{ktruss,kdump}
! 62:
1.229.2.3 yamt 63: 20120726:
64: The update of OpenSSL requires cleaning both the OpenSSL build
65: directory and DESTDIR. *Even non-update builds require cleaning
66: DESTDIR.* Builds done without taking these steps may fail, or in
67: some cases may succeed and install broken OpenSSL libraries that
68: cause third-party software to link incorrectly and/or crash.
69:
1.229.2.2 yamt 70: 20120507:
1.229.2.3 yamt 71: The database schema for makemandb was changed. You will
1.229.2.2 yamt 72: need to update the database using 'makemandb -f' or wait
73: for the next weekly run to fix it.
74:
1.229.2.1 yamt 75: 20120319:
76: sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc has been modified to adjust the
77: size of db_symtab automatically. You need to update dbsym in
78: your $TOOLDIR to build kernels with options SYMTAB_SPACE. If
79: you don't want this behavior, add AUTO_SYMTAB_SPACE=no to your
80: mk.conf.
81:
82: 20120216:
1.229.2.3 yamt 83: Default for MKCATPAGES changed to NO. Update builds will fail
84: unless DESTDIR is cleaned manually. If you built between 20120207
85: and 20120216, daily and weekly could have created an unreadable
86: /var/db/man.db index for apropos. Running makemandb -f or
1.229.2.1 yamt 87: the next run of weekly will fix it.
88:
89: 20111227:
90: If you built between 20111225 and 20111227 you need to remove
91: /usr/lib/libpam.so.4* and /usr/lib/security/*.so.4, since the
92: bump has been reverted.
93:
94: 20111125:
95: The "rnd" pseudodevice has been added to sys/conf/std, which
96: means it should no longer be explicitly listed in kernel
97: configuration files. The line "pseudo-device rnd" should be
98: removed from any custom kernel config files users may have.
99:
100: 20111119:
101: A problem with the datastructures used by the rndctl(8)
102: utility (pointers in datastructures in an array, making 32->64
103: bit compatibility very painful) has been fixed in a
104: non-backwards-compatible way. If you replace your kernel,
105: replace your rndctl executable too.
1.229.2.3 yamt 106:
1.229 jym 107: 20111001:
108: the prop_*_send_syscall() functions from proplib(3) have been
109: changed and their new version is not backward compatible with the old
1.229.2.3 yamt 110: one. So ensure that all consumers of these functions (currently:
1.229 jym 111: quota2 code and its tests) are updated together with the new lib.
112:
1.228 mrg 113: 20110817:
114: sparc has been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any objdir or
115: DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
116:
1.227 riastrad 117: 20110806:
118: i386 and amd64 have been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any
119: objdir or DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
120:
1.226 mrg 121: 20110805:
122: The update to GCC 4.5.3 requires a non-trivial portion of
123: the tree to be cleaned. Best to delete both objdir and
124: DESTDIR before running this update. So far, only the
125: sparc64, mips and powerpc platforms have changed.
126:
1.225 matt 127: 20110803:
1.229.2.3 yamt 128: The layout of external/public-domain/xz has changed. To do an
1.225 matt 129: update build you will have to remove the contents of the OBJDIR
130: for external/public-domain/xz/bin by hand as the xz entry there
131: is now a directory.
132:
1.223 joerg 133: 20110410:
1.229.2.3 yamt 134: The configuration of src/tools/gcc has changed. To do an
1.224 dholland 135: update build you have to clean both tools/binutils and
136: tools/gcc by hand.
1.223 joerg 137:
1.222 plunky 138: 20110328:
139: Building the Xorg binary was moved into a subdirectory to fix
1.229.2.3 yamt 140: ordering issues with "make all". It may be necessary to remove
1.222 plunky 141: the OBJDIR for external/mit/xorg/server/xorg-server/hw/xfree86
142: if your update build fails, as the "Xorg" entry there is now a
143: directory.
144:
1.220 joerg 145: 20110121:
1.221 lukem 146: Assembler files no longer use -traditional-cpp. This can break
1.220 joerg 147: the build of individual parts of the tree. This is handled
148: correctly by build.sh. Manual builds have to update /usr/share/mk
149: and re-run config(1) for any kernel configurations as needed.
1.218 joerg 150:
1.217 jruoho 151: 20101217:
152: The tcpdump(8) program was changed to drop privileges and chroot(2)
1.229.2.3 yamt 153: by default. It may be necessary to manually update passwd(5) and
1.217 jruoho 154: group(5) in order to make the program work with existing setups.
155:
1.216 christos 156: 20101125:
157: The latest changes to setenv(3) dissallow setting environment
1.229.2.3 yamt 158: variables with names that contain '='. Revision 1.18 of env.c
159: assumed that this was allowed. Installing a new libc with an
1.216 christos 160: old copy of /usr/bin/env causes env x=1 printenv | grep x= to
161: break which affects the autoconf tests for dependency finding,
162: so building gcc will end up printing:
163: checking dependency style of gcc... none
164: configure: error: no usable dependency style found
165: Fix it by rebuilding and re-installing env.
1.138 lukem 166:
1.215 mrg 167: 20101119:
168: Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ may cause various build
169: or run-time problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you
170: have any build problems with xsrc, or problems with mismatched
171: versions between xorg-server and drivers.
172:
1.213 jmmv 173: 20100604:
174: The update of ATF to 0.9 causes old tests written in shell to fail
175: unless they are rebuilt. If you are building with MKUPDATE=yes,
176: you need to clean the src/external/bsd/atf/tests/ and the src/tests/
177: trees by hand.
178:
1.211 tnozaki 179: 20100522:
1.212 mrg 180: Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ will cause various build
181: problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you have any
182: build problems with xsrc.
183:
184: 20100522:
1.211 tnozaki 185: private section of <ctype.h> was splitted, and now mklocale(1)
1.214 dholland 186: include ctype_local.h, so you have to make cleandir in tools/mklocale.
1.211 tnozaki 187:
1.210 christos 188: 20100520:
1.229.2.3 yamt 189: The location of the xkb compiled descriptions has changed. Please
1.210 christos 190: remove usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled from your $DESTDIR.
191:
1.209 njoly 192: 20100222:
193: The shared objects file extension has been changed from .so to
194: .pico, in order to avoid conflicts with shared libraries names
195: libXX.so. All now stale regular .so files can be removed from
196: your object directories.
197:
1.208 roy 198: 20100204:
199: The termcap database has been removed from the sources,
200: but has not been marked obsolete so it is not removed
201: from the system when upgrading.
202: As such, you will need to remove them from your object
203: and destination directories.
204:
1.203 dyoung 205: 20091101:
1.205 dholland 206: After updating, it may be necessary to make the 'cleandir'
207: target in src/tools/yacc/ and in src/usr.bin/yacc/ before a
208: 'build.sh -u tools' or 'build.sh -u distribution'. Ditto
209: src/tools/lex/ and src/usr.bin/lex/.
1.203 dyoung 210:
1.202 mrg 211: 20091001:
1.206 dholland 212: On amd64 you must rebuild tools (to get the new binutils)
213: before building a kernel, or the build fails on cpufunc.S.
214:
215: 20091001:
1.202 mrg 216: An error will create a ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/xkb
217: symlink, failing the build. Delete the link, and the subdir
218: it is in, and retry your build.
219:
1.201 dsl 220: 20090718:
221: libc build changed so that strchr() provides the extra entry
1.229.2.3 yamt 222: point for index(). Update build of libc.a (and libc_pic.a)
1.201 dsl 223: may fail because the archive contains the unwanted index.o.
224: (Similarly for strrchr() and rindex().)
225:
1.198 mrg 226: 20090709:
227: Native Xorg was upgraded again. Builds will probably fail again
228: without a clean objdir, at least for src/external/mit/xorg.
229:
1.197 mrg 230: 20090616:
231: Native Xorg was upgraded. Builds will need a clean objdir for
232: src/external/mit/xorg. Upgrading a system from sets will not
233: work properly yet as the /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
234: subdirectory has been changed into a file, and this needs to
235: be manually "rm -r"'ed before installing xbase.tgz.
236:
1.195 perry 237: 20090501:
238: Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this
239: can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people
1.229.2.3 yamt 240: who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you
1.195 perry 241: note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a
242: failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools
243: objects and start again.
244:
1.194 mrg 245: 20090325:
246: The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires
247: cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them.
248:
1.192 skrll 249: 20090126:
1.229.2.3 yamt 250: The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You
1.207 mbalmer 251: need to 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory
252: to avoid using the old assembly stub.
1.192 skrll 253:
1.191 joerg 254: 20090202:
255: pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
256: detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
257: ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
258:
1.184 christos 259: 20090110:
1.229.2.3 yamt 260: time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade:
261: 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install.
1.188 christos 262: This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is
263: conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c.
1.184 christos 264: 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work
265: before installing.
266: 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and
1.229.2.3 yamt 267: your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers
1.184 christos 268: are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc
269: and libutil, install them and then continue building all the
1.229.2.3 yamt 270: libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once
1.184 christos 271: the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build.
272: 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings,
1.189 hubertf 273: rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries.
274: Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages
275: that depend on it.
1.186 christos 276: 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file
277: will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible.
1.190 apb 278: 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see
279: lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic
1.229.2.3 yamt 280: for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after
1.190 apb 281: upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during
282: boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by
283: newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the
284: files manually.
285: 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see
286: accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be
287: removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by
288: /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove
289: the file.
1.196 dholland 290: 8. Application software that writes time_t to binary files on
1.229.2.3 yamt 291: disk will break or need attention. Most notably: if you are
1.196 dholland 292: using PostgreSQL < 8.4, you need to dump your databases,
293: rebuild PostgreSQL with the new time_t, then restore.
1.185 jmcneill 294:
1.183 pgoyette 295: 20081219:
296: config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates -
297: swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config
298: (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun
299: config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those
300: kernels.
301:
1.181 cube 302: 20081205:
303: If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and
304: /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc
305: set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds.
1.178 lukem 306:
1.179 tsutsui 307: 20081122:
1.182 tsutsui 308: On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including
1.180 wiz 309: file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules.
310: Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the
1.179 tsutsui 311: following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel:
312:
313: - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules
314:
315: - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module
1.180 wiz 316: for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically
1.179 tsutsui 317:
1.180 wiz 318: If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of
319: the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary
320: file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file.
1.179 tsutsui 321:
1.178 lukem 322: 20080827:
323: If you built and installed a libc from sources between
324: 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3)
325: which results in false errors reported by lint(1).
326: Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is
1.180 wiz 327: needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.:
1.178 lukem 328: $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install)
329:
1.177 christos 330: 20080813:
331: MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know
1.229.2.3 yamt 332: about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild.
1.177 christos 333:
1.200 dholland 334: 20080802:
335: A regression in binary compatibility for pthread_mutex_t has
1.229.2.3 yamt 336: been fixed. Unfortunately, the price is breaking compatibility
1.200 dholland 337: for -current.
338:
339: Threaded programs (using libpthread) and C++ programs (using
340: libstdc++) compiled after 20070907 and before 20080802 need to
341: be recompiled.
342:
343: One way to find affected pkgsrc packages:
344:
345: $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libpthread /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
346: $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libstdc++ /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
347:
1.175 simonb 348: 20080731:
349: WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this
350: time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels
351: and userland (fsck_ffs in particular). Please make sure you
352: don't use a journaled filesystem with an older kernel/userland,
1.176 simonb 353: especially an uncleanly mounted journaled filesystem. WAPBL
354: also requires the super block to be in the UFS2 format. You
355: can use fsck_ffs -c 4 to update the superblock format.
1.175 simonb 356:
1.174 lukem 357: 20080721:
358: Assembler warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0 and $NOGCCERROR
359: isn't defined.
360:
1.173 freza 361: 20080531:
1.229.2.3 yamt 362: The ioctl number of DRVSUSPENDDEV command on /dev/drvctl changed
363: from 125 (conflicted with DRVCTLCOMMAND) to 129. The drvctl(8)
1.173 freza 364: utility needs to be rebuilt and reinstalled as older binaries
1.229.2.3 yamt 365: won't work correctly. The following sequence of commands:
1.173 freza 366:
367: $ (cd sys/sys/ && nbmake-$arch includes)
368: $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch clean)
369: $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch all)
370:
371: leaves new drvctl utility in sbin/drvctl build directory.
372:
1.172 lukem 373: 20080503:
374: The <bsd.lib.mk> variable MKPRIVATELIB was renamed to LIBISPRIVATE.
375:
1.171 he 376: 20080521:
377: For a while, unprivileged UPDATE builds would fail to
378: succeed at the checkflist stage, complaining that
379: ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>/ did not exist. A fix for this
380: problem was committed to share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk, revision 1.9.
381: If you already hit this problem, update the .mk file,
382: remove ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>, and re-run the build.
383:
1.174 lukem 384: 20080303:
385: Linker warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0.
386:
1.170 christos 387: 20080126:
388: The posix_fadvise system call has been changed from an assembly
1.229.2.3 yamt 389: stub, to a c file that calls an assembly stub. You need to
1.170 christos 390: 'rm -f posix_fadvise.* .depend' in the libc build directory to
391: avoid using the old assembly stub.
392:
1.168 joerg 393: 20071209:
1.229.2.3 yamt 394: The acpiec(4) driver has been split into two attachments. If you
1.168 joerg 395: get ACPI errors before the attachment, please update your kernel
1.169 wiz 396: configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
1.168 joerg 397:
1.166 xtraeme 398: 20071115:
399: The it(4) driver has been renamed to itesio(4) and the old port
400: argument specified in the kernel configuration file is not valid
1.229.2.3 yamt 401: anymore. The itesio(4) driver now uses the Super I/O address port
402: rather than the EC address port. Please update your kernel
1.167 wiz 403: configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
1.166 xtraeme 404:
1.165 jmmv 405: 20071028:
406: The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.
407: You need to update any custom kernel configuration file you have
408: to remove any references to pccons (which includes removing the
409: now useless XSERVER option) and replace them with the correct
410: entries for the wscons driver. See the GENERIC configuration file
411: for more details.
412:
1.164 gdt 413: 20070913:
414: A latent bug in dhclient/dhcpd that caused it to be unable to
415: enumerate interfaces was fixed. The bug began to cause
416: problems after 20070911 when the kernel's SIOCGIFCONF
417: implementation was repaired. From 20070529 to 20070911 racoon
418: could not enumerate interfaces. (These are noted because
419: normal kernel/userspace version matching hygiene is not
420: sufficient to avoid this problem.) Ensure that both kernel
421: and userland are from after 20070913.
422:
1.163 joerg 423: 20070703:
1.229.2.3 yamt 424: nbinstall has been renamed ${MACHINE_GNU_ARCH}-install. It
1.199 dholland 425: calls the target-specific strip program, and the logic to pass
426: down STRIP from make has been removed. This requires a
427: re-installation of tools.
1.163 joerg 428:
1.161 dsl 429: 20070422:
430: The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
431: has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
432: to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
1.229.2.3 yamt 433: root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
1.167 wiz 434: root file system will be relative to that file system - unless they
1.161 dsl 435: start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
436: that has such links.
437: This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
438: the emulated root.
439:
1.160 jmcneill 440: 20070412:
1.229.2.3 yamt 441: The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
442: instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
1.160 jmcneill 443: example.
444:
1.159 gdt 445: 20070319:
446: src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
447: on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
448: updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
449: cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
450: rebuild of object files that might have been built
451: incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
452: src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
453:
1.229.2.3 yamt 454: 20070210:
1.158 dbj 455: src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
456: find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
457: | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
458: will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
459:
1.157 apb 460: 20070209:
461: The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
462: was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
463: kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
464: library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
465: an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
466: (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
467: the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
468: continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
469: is the only threaded application in the base system.
470:
1.154 he 471: 20061214:
472: Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
473: from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
474: will need to do a "make cleandir" in
475: tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
476: bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
1.156 he 477: usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
478: as the installation images in distrib/
1.154 he 479: in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
480: file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
481:
1.152 christos 482: 20061108:
483: The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
484: changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
1.229.2.3 yamt 485: does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
1.152 christos 486: make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
487:
1.151 rpaulo 488: 20061009:
489: The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
1.229.2.3 yamt 490: available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
1.151 rpaulo 491:
1.150 bjh21 492: 20060814:
493: The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
494: withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
495: kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
496: few years should cope.
497:
1.149 christos 498: 20060703:
1.229.2.3 yamt 499: MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
500: if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
501: to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
1.149 christos 502:
1.148 dogcow 503: 20060627:
504: socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
505: For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
506: your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
507: errors will result.
508:
1.1 abs 509: Hints for a more successful build:
510: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.123 jmc 511: Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
1.132 jmmv 512: This will automatically build the tools in the
1.123 jmc 513: correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
514: new build products from interfering with the running
515: system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
516: other advice in this file.
1.2 mrg 517: Build a new kernel first:
518: This makes sure that any new system calls or features
519: expected by the new userland will be present. This
520: helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
1.1 abs 521: Use object directories:
522: This helps to keep stale object
523: files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
524: about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
525: a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
526: same source tree for multiple machines.
1.123 jmc 527: To use object directories with build.sh:
528: a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
529: To use object directories without using build.sh:
1.1 abs 530: a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
1.2 mrg 531: b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
532: c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
1.1 abs 533: d) cd /usr/src ; make build
1.2 mrg 534: Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
535: in obj.$MACHINE directory.
1.1 abs 536: Build to a DESTDIR:
1.123 jmc 537: This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
538: from interfering with the new build.
539: To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
540: To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
541: environment variable before running make build. It should be
542: set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
543: Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
544: update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
545: nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
546: (See critical utils, below.)
1.1 abs 547: Build often:
548: This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
549: on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
1.123 jmc 550: date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
551: this problem.
1.229.2.3 yamt 552:
1.1 abs 553: What to do if things don't work:
554: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.229.2.1 yamt 555: When things don't work there are usually a few things that commonly
1.1 abs 556: should be done.
557: 1) make includes
558: This should be done automatically by make build.
559: 2) cd share/mk && make install
560: Again, automatically done by make build.
561:
562: Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
563: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
564: To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
565: something like the following:
566: 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
567: 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
568: utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
569: 3) cd ...path/to/util...
570: make cleandir
571: rm ...all obj directories...
572: make cleandir # yes, again
573: make obj
574: make depend && make
575:
576: Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
577: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
578: If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
1.2 mrg 579: ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
580: (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
581: for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
1.1 abs 582:
583: ---cut here---
584: #!/bin/sh
585: . /etc/mk.conf
586:
1.58 lukem 587: if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
588: NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
1.1 abs 589: fi
1.58 lukem 590: if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
1.1 abs 591: echo Unable to find sources
592: exit 1
593: fi
1.58 lukem 594: find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
1.1 abs 595:
596: if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
597: BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
598: fi
599: if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
600: rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
601: fi
602:
1.58 lukem 603: cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
1.1 abs 604:
605: ---cut here---
606:
607: Critical utilities:
608: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1.3 itojun 609: usr.bin/compile_et
1.1 abs 610: usr.bin/make
611: usr.bin/yacc
612: usr.bin/lex
1.11 lukem 613: usr.bin/xlint
1.142 drochner 614: usr.bin/config
1.1 abs 615:
1.34 simonb 616: Other problems and possible solutions:
1.1 abs 617: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
618: Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
1.17 erh 619: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
620: cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
1.111 simonb 621: Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
1.17 erh 622: cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
623:
1.1 abs 624: Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
625: cd share/mk && make install
1.2 mrg 626:
627: Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
1.142 drochner 628: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
1.1 abs 629:
630: Symptom:
631: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
632:
633: Symptom:
634: Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
635:
636: Symptom:
637: Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
1.4 itojun 638:
639: Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
640: Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
641: make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
642: (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
643: may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
1.5 wiz 644:
1.207 mbalmer 645: Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible
646: pointer type
1.5 wiz 647: Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
1.12 itojun 648:
649: Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
650: Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
1.13 dogcow 651:
1.86 kleink 652: Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
1.13 dogcow 653: Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
654:
1.142 drochner 655: Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
1.19 cgd 656: Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
1.13 dogcow 657:
1.19 cgd 658: Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
659: Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
1.24 abs 660:
661: Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
662: Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
1.223 joerg 663:
664: Symptom:Update build fails in src/tools/gcc complaining that a variable
665: (e.g. CPPFLAGS) has changed since the previous run.
666: Fix: Run "nbmake-${ARCH} clean" in src/tools/gcc or do a clean build.
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