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