UPDATING revision 1.136 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.136 2005/03/26 14:25:25 cube 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 20050325:
19 pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4). Be sure
20 to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
21 configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
22 with wsconsctl. Also, it is advised to attach both devices the
23 same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the pcppi(4) device
24 may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
25
26 20050211:
27 Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
28 some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
29 cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
30 different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
31 make a build continue.
32
33 20050109:
34 Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
35 /etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
36 for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
37 a password).
38
39 20041229:
40 Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
41 being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
42 you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
43 the build.
44
45 20041201:
46 Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
47 /dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
48 MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
49
50 20041006:
51
52 A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
53 variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
54 will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
55 on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
56
57 ident /bin/sh | grep var
58
59 Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
60 before attempting a build.
61
62 20041001:
63 The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
64 dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
65 dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
66 before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
67 ftp-proxy are the victims).
68
69 20040715:
70 The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
71 if sendmail should be started at boot time. It checks the
72 contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
73 owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
74 to the mail infrastructure have been made. If no changes
75 are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
76
77 Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
78
79 If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
80 local delivery, it is important that you also update your
81 sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
82 loopback interface.
83
84 20040715:
85 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
86 kernel builds has been changed again. The latest version
87 of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
88
89 20040621:
90 Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
91 from a clean objdir under tools/*.
92
93 This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
94 to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
95
96 The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
97
98 20040516:
99 The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
100 from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<dir> to /etc/X11/<dir>.
101 Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
102 "make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
103
104 postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
105 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
106 detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
107 manually move these files yourself.
108
109 20040426:
110 Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
111 been removed in favor of the newer layout. This affects
112 consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
113 the dynamic discovery mechanism. This is believed only to
114 be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
115 the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
116 built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
117 will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
118 2004/04/25. If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
119 does not work, make sure that your revision of
120 src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
121 do the following:
122
123 cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
124 make USETOOLS=no includes
125 cd lib/libc
126 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
127 cd ../../sbin/sysctl
128 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
129
130 If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
131 identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
132 "unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that. if that happens,
133 make sure to follow the above steps.
134
135 20040425:
136 The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
137 are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
138 sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
139 invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
140 automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances,
141 affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
142 upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
143 encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
144 filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
145 possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
146
147 20040418:
148 statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
149 installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
150 a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
151 build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
152 clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
153 anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
154 from the libc build directory.
155
156 20040326:
157 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
158 has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
159 and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
160 to build it.
161
162 This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
163 building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
164
165 20040318:
166 A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
167 provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
168 notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
169 ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
170 recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
171 (recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
172
173 20040313:
174 On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
175 the old wsqms driver is now called qms. Kernel config files
176 will need updating. See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
177 for examples.
178
179 20040125:
180 On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
181 needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
182 files.
183
184 20040109:
185 Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
186 added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
187 when using those layouts. If you have been using -current
188 since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
189 superblock mismatches. To repair, make sure you have
190 an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
191 to complete the filesystem upgrade. A message has
192 been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
193 See the following discussion for more information:
194 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
195
196 20031203:
197 New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
198 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
199 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
200
201 20031111:
202 A newer mkdep is needed. Error noting that is
203 cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
204
205 20031008:
206 /usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
207 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
208 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
209
210 20031007:
211 A sign exension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
212 of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags. This should only
213 affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
214 A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
215 should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
216 to the kernel which should discover and warn about it. See
217 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
218
219 20030906:
220 With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
221 code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
222 kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
223
224 20030801:
225 With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
226 rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
227 /usr/lib/libdes* before building.
228
229 20030703:
230 Texinfo was updated to 4.6. To avoid failures when trying to
231 build the included texinfo files, do:
232
233 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
234 make MKINFO=no dependall install
235
236 20030630:
237 Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
238 cd share/mk && make install
239 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
240 make MKMAN=no dependall install
241 (untested).
242
243 20030516:
244 Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
245 were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
246 mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
247 been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
248 export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
249 make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
250 file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
251 a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
252
253 20030402:
254 The superblock layout for FFS was changed. If you have 1.6
255 fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
256 with the first alternate, because they compare too many
257 fields (even ones that aren't useful). If possible, upgrade
258 your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
259 None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
260
261 20030324:
262 sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported. Since sendmail is
263 now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
264 mode for most common activities, there is a new config
265 file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
266 The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
267 is named netbsd-msp.cf. Upgrading your regular sendmail
268 configuration file is also strongly advised.
269
270 See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
271 the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
272 information.
273
274 20030117:
275 Texinfo was updated to 4.3. To avoid failures when trying to
276 build the included texinfo files, do:
277
278 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
279 make MKINFO=no dependall install
280
281 20021223:
282 The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
283 "${DESTDIR}" from path names.
284 This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
285 For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
286 update tools/mtree, before running make build.
287
288 20021219:
289 CVS repository layout was changed. See the following for details
290 if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
291
292 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
293
294 20021219:
295 install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
296 alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
297 of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
298
299 The build system was modified to take advantage of
300 this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
301 use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
302 reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
303
304 20021130:
305 fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
306 If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
307 and rebuild libc:
308 make includes
309 make do-lib-libc
310 If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
311 before rebuilding the tools.
312
313 20021126:
314 The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
315 including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
316 All header files, including <sys/*.h> are copied into
317 /usr/include.
318
319 20021121:
320 The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
321 (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
322 split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
323 This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
324 new libraries are installed. The process of rebuilding
325 libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
326 required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
327 do this.
328
329 An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
330 which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
331 their global contructors/destructors will not be invoked.
332
333 20021121:
334 A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
335 corrected.
336
337 NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
338 default. However, the assembler lacked support for marking
339 objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
340 compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
341 to the assembler.
342
343 Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
344 old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
345 incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
346
347 The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
348 a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
349 against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
350 markings. ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
351 WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
352
353 The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
354 the libraries on the system. The easiest way to do this for
355 system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
356 generally available on releng.NetBSD.org. Any packages you
357 have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
358 if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
359
360 If you have questions about this matter, please contact
361 port-arm (a] NetBSD.org.
362
363 20021011:
364 Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
365 Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
366 to be rebuilt.
367
368 20021010:
369 The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
370 dependencies on attributes, as well as other options. Users
371 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
372 kernel.
373
374 20021009:
375 A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
376 which is now used by the SCSI configuration description. Users
377 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
378 kernel.
379
380 20021003:
381 Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
382 framework. Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
383 before building a new kernel.
384
385 20021001:
386 The i386mp branch has been merged. To compile a kernel, users
387 will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
388 file. Multiprocessor kernels will need
389 ioapic* at mainbus? apid ?
390 options MULTIPROCESSOR
391 options COM_MPLOCK
392
393 20020922:
394 MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
395 certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
396 linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
397 and /sbin are dynamically linked.
398 If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
399 you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
400 with:
401 make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
402
403 20020917:
404 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
405 - TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
406 there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
407 x86_64).
408 - EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
409 root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu). This
410 enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
411 platforms.
412
413 20020906:
414 gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
415 reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
416
417 20020822:
418 Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
419 are now provided in /rescue.
420
421 To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
422 what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
423 from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
424
425 20020820:
426 crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
427 is statically linked.
428
429 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
430
431 20020605:
432 smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
433
434 Add the following into /etc/group:
435
436 smmsp:*:17:
437
438 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
439
440 smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
441
442 20020515:
443 sshd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in, or sshd
444 will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivlegeSeparation=yes)
445
446 Add the following into /etc/group:
447
448 sshd:*:16:
449
450 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
451
452 sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
453
454 Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
455 the build process).
456
457 20020426:
458 NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
459
460 20020426:
461 etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for
462 configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
463 the problems identified.
464 This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
465 configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
466
467 20020320:
468 <bsd.lib.mk> needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
469 Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
470
471 20020319:
472 Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
473 on send(2) operation. Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
474 newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
475
476 20020311:
477 ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh. Beware
478 if you restart your machine from remote. Note that sshd.conf needs
479 to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
480
481 20020223:
482 Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
483 so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
484 the VAX assembly files.
485
486 20020118:
487 ntpd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in or builds
488 will break as mtree aborts early.
489
490 Add the following into /etc/group:
491
492 ntpd:*:15:
493
494 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
495
496 ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
497
498 20011207:
499 If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
500 reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
501 toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
502
503 To fix:
504
505 Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
506 Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
507
508 gnu/lib/libgcc
509 gnu/lib/libstdc++
510
511 After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
512
513 20011201:
514 In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
515 you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
516 point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
517 point is broken.
518
519 To build:
520
521 remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
522 remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
523 against the new libgcc.a)
524
525 20011128:
526 Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
527 the various "files" files. Bug fixes to config(8) are
528 required in order for this to work properly. Make sure
529 to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
530 to build a new kernel.
531
532 20011030:
533 libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
534 before building libc.
535
536 20011029:
537 The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
538 see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
539 procedure in great detail. BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
540 build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
541 manual update log.
542
543 Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
544 BUILDING document for caveats. Generally, BUILDING supersedes
545 UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
546 by the new build system.
547
548 20011028:
549 src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
550 symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
551 prevented this was corrected.
552
553 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
554 Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
555 for you.
556
557 20011006:
558 /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
559 absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
560 understand the format.
561
562 Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
563
564 20011004:
565 Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
566 is suggested before running a snapshot build
567
568 20010915:
569 The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
570 a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h. There may be stale .depend
571 files that still reference this file.
572
573 Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
574 directories.
575
576 20010803:
577 grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo. Since it
578 requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
579 building gnu/usr.bin/grep. To install new texinfo, please follow
580 the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
581
582 20010803:
583 (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
584 `fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand. To build the
585 kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain,
586 (i.e., build.sh -t) or (temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU"
587 from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
588 See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
589 [updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
590
591 20010731:
592 Bootloader update on ELF platforms. DDB in kernels from before
593 this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
594 bootloaders.
595
596 20010726:
597 Texinfo was updated to 4.0. To avoid failures when trying to
598 build the included texinfo files, do:
599
600 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
601 make MKINFO=no dependall install
602
603 20010718:
604 Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0. The way this
605 was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
606 make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
607 timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
608
609 The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
610 if you have a stale dependency.
611
612 Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
613 before starting your build.
614
615 20010628:
616 A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
617 in lint(1). If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
618 bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
619
620 20010226:
621 Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
622 will break as mtree aborts early.
623
624 To work around add by hand:
625
626 named:*:14:
627
628 to /etc/group and add:
629
630 named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
631
632 to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
633
634 Now a make build should progress.
635
636 20010219:
637 get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
638 to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
639
640 Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
641 usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
642 CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
643 usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
644 building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
645
646 20010204:
647 prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
648 particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
649 needs to be installed before make build.
650
651 20010114:
652 introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
653 bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
654 anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
655 with make build.
656
657 20010101:
658 bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
659 afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
660
661 20001230:
662 New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
663 If you get make errors,
664 (cd share/mk; make install)
665 Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
666
667 20001019:
668 The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
669 major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
670 directory.
671
672 20000929:
673 The following make directives are obsoleted.
674 MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA
675 By default, RSA is built into libcrypto. IDEA and RC5 will not be
676 built into libcrypto. By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
677 additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
678
679
680 Hints for a more successful build:
681 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
682 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
683 This will automatically build the tools in the
684 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
685 new build products from interfering with the running
686 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
687 other advice in this file.
688 Build a new kernel first:
689 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
690 expected by the new userland will be present. This
691 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
692 Use object directories:
693 This helps to keep stale object
694 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
695 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
696 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
697 same source tree for multiple machines.
698 To use object directories with build.sh:
699 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
700 To use object directories without using build.sh:
701 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
702 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
703 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
704 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
705 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
706 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
707 Build to a DESTDIR:
708 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
709 from interfering with the new build.
710 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
711 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
712 environment variable before running make build. It should be
713 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
714 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
715 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
716 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
717 (See critical utils, below.)
718 Build often:
719 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
720 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
721 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
722 this problem.
723
724 What to do if things don't work:
725 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
726 When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
727 should be done.
728 1) make includes
729 This should be done automatically by make build.
730 2) cd share/mk && make install
731 Again, automatically done by make build.
732
733 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
734 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
735 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
736 something like the following:
737 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
738 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
739 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
740 3) cd ...path/to/util...
741 make cleandir
742 rm ...all obj directories...
743 make cleandir # yes, again
744 make obj
745 make depend && make
746
747 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
748 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
749 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
750 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
751 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
752 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
753
754 ---cut here---
755 #!/bin/sh
756 . /etc/mk.conf
757
758 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
759 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
760 fi
761 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
762 echo Unable to find sources
763 exit 1
764 fi
765 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
766
767 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
768 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
769 fi
770 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
771 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
772 fi
773
774 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
775
776 ---cut here---
777
778 Critical utilities:
779 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
780 gnu/usr.bin/egcs
781 usr.bin/compile_et
782 usr.bin/make
783 usr.bin/yacc
784 usr.bin/lex
785 usr.bin/xlint
786 usr.sbin/config
787
788 Other problems and possible solutions:
789 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
790 Symptom:Unreasonable compiler errors.
791 Fix: Rebuild gnu/usr.bin/egcs
792
793 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
794 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
795 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
796 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
797 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
798
799 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
800 cd share/mk && make install
801
802 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
803 Fix: Rebuild usr.sbin/config
804
805 Symptom:
806 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
807
808 Symptom:
809 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
810
811 Symptom:
812 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
813
814 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
815 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
816 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
817 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
818 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
819
820 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
821 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
822
823 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
824 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
825
826 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
827 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
828
829 Symptom:usr.sbin/config fails to build.
830 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
831
832 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
833 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
834
835 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
836 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
837