UPDATING revision 1.147 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.147 2006/06/02 19:08:00 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 20060526:
20 The kernel linker scripts for i386 and xen
21 (sys/arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript*) were changed to set the
22 load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
23 (like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
24 will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug and ld will fail
25 with an error like:
26 ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript:45 \
27 non constant expression for load base
28 You need to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile
29 and install the linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest
30 way is with a "build.sh tools" command, with any other options
31 that you use normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is
32 installed as ${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
33
34 20060131:
35 the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
36 the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,
37 you need to update ofwboot. After a full build, just copy
38 /usr/mdec/ofwboot to /, or do a rebuild of
39 src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/ofwboot and install the result to /.
40
41 20050917:
42 arch/*/conf/std.* was changed to include conf/std, which
43 contains MI options previously enabled by default.
44 If you have kernel config files which doesn't include
45 arch/*/conf/std.*, you need to edit them to include conf/std
46 to get the previous configuration.
47
48 20050830:
49 named.conf was moved from /etc/namedb to /etc.
50 postinstall(8) migrates this during interactive use.
51 Users of MKUPDATE=yes will need to manually rectify
52 this in their DESTDIR.
53
54 20050825:
55 Some data structures in sys/device.h, related to interface
56 attributes and locator names, were changed. config(1) was
57 modified to emit the new data structures.
58 Thus usr.bin/config must be updated (and run on the kernel
59 configuration file) before a new kernel can be built.
60
61 20050531:
62 genassym.sh(8) was moved to genassym(1). You need to either build
63 tools first or install the version of genassym from /usr/bin before
64 you can build a kernel again.
65
66 20050520:
67 Because a kernfs bug which xentools relies on was fixed,
68 xentools up to xentools20-2.0.3nb4 won't work with new kernel.
69
70 20050417:
71 postinstall(8) was moved from /etc to /usr/sbin and made part
72 of the "base" set, to make it easier to invoke after an
73 upgrade.
74
75 20050325:
76 pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4). Be sure
77 to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
78 configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
79 with wsconsctl. Depending on the default value for the pitch, you
80 might even not hear any more beep. Also, it is advised to attach both
81 devices the same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the
82 pcppi(4) device may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
83
84 20050211:
85 Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
86 some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
87 cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
88 different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
89 make a build continue.
90
91 20050109:
92 Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
93 /etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
94 for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
95 a password).
96
97 20041229:
98 Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
99 being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
100 you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
101 the build.
102
103 20041201:
104 Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
105 /dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
106 MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
107
108 20041006:
109
110 A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
111 variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
112 will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
113 on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
114
115 ident /bin/sh | grep var
116
117 Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
118 before attempting a build.
119
120 20041001:
121 The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
122 dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
123 dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
124 before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
125 ftp-proxy are the victims).
126
127 20040715:
128 The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
129 if sendmail should be started at boot time. It checks the
130 contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
131 owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
132 to the mail infrastructure have been made. If no changes
133 are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
134
135 Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
136
137 If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
138 local delivery, it is important that you also update your
139 sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
140 loopback interface.
141
142 20040715:
143 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
144 kernel builds has been changed again. The latest version
145 of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
146
147 20040621:
148 Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
149 from a clean objdir under tools/*.
150
151 This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
152 to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
153
154 The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
155
156 20040516:
157 The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
158 from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<dir> to /etc/X11/<dir>.
159 Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
160 "make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
161
162 postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
163 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
164 detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
165 manually move these files yourself.
166
167 20040426:
168 Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
169 been removed in favor of the newer layout. This affects
170 consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
171 the dynamic discovery mechanism. This is believed only to
172 be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
173 the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
174 built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
175 will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
176 2004/04/25. If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
177 does not work, make sure that your revision of
178 src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
179 do the following:
180
181 cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
182 make USETOOLS=no includes
183 cd lib/libc
184 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
185 cd ../../sbin/sysctl
186 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
187
188 If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
189 identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
190 "unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that. if that happens,
191 make sure to follow the above steps.
192
193 20040425:
194 The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
195 are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
196 sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
197 invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
198 automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances,
199 affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
200 upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
201 encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
202 filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
203 possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
204
205 20040418:
206 statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
207 installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
208 a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
209 build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
210 clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
211 anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
212 from the libc build directory.
213
214 20040326:
215 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
216 has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
217 and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
218 to build it.
219
220 This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
221 building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
222
223 20040318:
224 A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
225 provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
226 notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
227 ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
228 recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
229 (recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
230
231 20040313:
232 On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
233 the old wsqms driver is now called qms. Kernel config files
234 will need updating. See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
235 for examples.
236
237 20040125:
238 On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
239 needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
240 files.
241
242 20040109:
243 Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
244 added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
245 when using those layouts. If you have been using -current
246 since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
247 superblock mismatches. To repair, make sure you have
248 an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
249 to complete the filesystem upgrade. A message has
250 been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
251 See the following discussion for more information:
252 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
253
254 20031203:
255 New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
256 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
257 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
258
259 20031111:
260 A newer mkdep is needed. Error noting that is
261 cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
262
263 20031008:
264 /usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
265 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
266 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
267
268 20031007:
269 A sign exension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
270 of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags. This should only
271 affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
272 A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
273 should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
274 to the kernel which should discover and warn about it. See
275 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
276
277 20030906:
278 With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
279 code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
280 kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
281
282 20030801:
283 With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
284 rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
285 /usr/lib/libdes* before building.
286
287 20030703:
288 Texinfo was updated to 4.6. To avoid failures when trying to
289 build the included texinfo files, do:
290
291 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
292 make MKINFO=no dependall install
293
294 20030630:
295 Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
296 cd share/mk && make install
297 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
298 make MKMAN=no dependall install
299 (untested).
300
301 20030516:
302 Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
303 were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
304 mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
305 been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
306 export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
307 make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
308 file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
309 a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
310
311 20030402:
312 The superblock layout for FFS was changed. If you have 1.6
313 fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
314 with the first alternate, because they compare too many
315 fields (even ones that aren't useful). If possible, upgrade
316 your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
317 None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
318
319 20030324:
320 sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported. Since sendmail is
321 now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
322 mode for most common activities, there is a new config
323 file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
324 The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
325 is named netbsd-msp.cf. Upgrading your regular sendmail
326 configuration file is also strongly advised.
327
328 See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
329 the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
330 information.
331
332 20030117:
333 Texinfo was updated to 4.3. To avoid failures when trying to
334 build the included texinfo files, do:
335
336 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
337 make MKINFO=no dependall install
338
339 20021223:
340 The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
341 "${DESTDIR}" from path names.
342 This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
343 For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
344 update tools/mtree, before running make build.
345
346 20021219:
347 CVS repository layout was changed. See the following for details
348 if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
349
350 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
351
352 20021219:
353 install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
354 alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
355 of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
356
357 The build system was modified to take advantage of
358 this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
359 use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
360 reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
361
362 20021130:
363 fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
364 If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
365 and rebuild libc:
366 make includes
367 make do-lib-libc
368 If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
369 before rebuilding the tools.
370
371 20021126:
372 The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
373 including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
374 All header files, including <sys/*.h> are copied into
375 /usr/include.
376
377 20021121:
378 The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
379 (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
380 split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
381 This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
382 new libraries are installed. The process of rebuilding
383 libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
384 required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
385 do this.
386
387 An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
388 which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
389 their global contructors/destructors will not be invoked.
390
391 20021121:
392 A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
393 corrected.
394
395 NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
396 default. However, the assembler lacked support for marking
397 objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
398 compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
399 to the assembler.
400
401 Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
402 old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
403 incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
404
405 The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
406 a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
407 against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
408 markings. ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
409 WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
410
411 The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
412 the libraries on the system. The easiest way to do this for
413 system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
414 generally available on releng.NetBSD.org. Any packages you
415 have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
416 if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
417
418 If you have questions about this matter, please contact
419 port-arm (a] NetBSD.org.
420
421 20021011:
422 Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
423 Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
424 to be rebuilt.
425
426 20021010:
427 The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
428 dependencies on attributes, as well as other options. Users
429 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
430 kernel.
431
432 20021009:
433 A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
434 which is now used by the SCSI configuration description. Users
435 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
436 kernel.
437
438 20021003:
439 Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
440 framework. Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
441 before building a new kernel.
442
443 20021001:
444 The i386mp branch has been merged. To compile a kernel, users
445 will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
446 file. Multiprocessor kernels will need
447 ioapic* at mainbus? apid ?
448 options MULTIPROCESSOR
449 options COM_MPLOCK
450
451 20020922:
452 MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
453 certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
454 linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
455 and /sbin are dynamically linked.
456 If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
457 you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
458 with:
459 make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
460
461 20020917:
462 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
463 - TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
464 there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
465 x86_64).
466 - EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
467 root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu). This
468 enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
469 platforms.
470
471 20020906:
472 gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
473 reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
474
475 20020822:
476 Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
477 are now provided in /rescue.
478
479 To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
480 what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
481 from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
482
483 20020820:
484 crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
485 is statically linked.
486
487 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
488
489 20020605:
490 smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
491
492 Add the following into /etc/group:
493
494 smmsp:*:17:
495
496 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
497
498 smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
499
500 20020515:
501 sshd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in, or sshd
502 will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivlegeSeparation=yes)
503
504 Add the following into /etc/group:
505
506 sshd:*:16:
507
508 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
509
510 sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
511
512 Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
513 the build process).
514
515 20020426:
516 NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
517
518 20020426:
519 etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for
520 configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
521 the problems identified.
522 This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
523 configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
524
525 20020320:
526 <bsd.lib.mk> needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
527 Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
528
529 20020319:
530 Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
531 on send(2) operation. Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
532 newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
533
534 20020311:
535 ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh. Beware
536 if you restart your machine from remote. Note that sshd.conf needs
537 to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
538
539 20020223:
540 Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
541 so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
542 the VAX assembly files.
543
544 20020118:
545 ntpd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in or builds
546 will break as mtree aborts early.
547
548 Add the following into /etc/group:
549
550 ntpd:*:15:
551
552 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
553
554 ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
555
556 20011207:
557 If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
558 reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
559 toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
560
561 To fix:
562
563 Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
564 Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
565
566 gnu/lib/libgcc
567 gnu/lib/libstdc++
568
569 After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
570
571 20011201:
572 In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
573 you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
574 point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
575 point is broken.
576
577 To build:
578
579 remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
580 remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
581 against the new libgcc.a)
582
583 20011128:
584 Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
585 the various "files" files. Bug fixes to config(8) are
586 required in order for this to work properly. Make sure
587 to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
588 to build a new kernel.
589
590 20011030:
591 libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
592 before building libc.
593
594 20011029:
595 The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
596 see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
597 procedure in great detail. BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
598 build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
599 manual update log.
600
601 Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
602 BUILDING document for caveats. Generally, BUILDING supersedes
603 UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
604 by the new build system.
605
606 20011028:
607 src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
608 symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
609 prevented this was corrected.
610
611 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
612 Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
613 for you.
614
615 20011006:
616 /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
617 absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
618 understand the format.
619
620 Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
621
622 20011004:
623 Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
624 is suggested before running a snapshot build
625
626 20010915:
627 The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
628 a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h. There may be stale .depend
629 files that still reference this file.
630
631 Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
632 directories.
633
634 20010803:
635 grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo. Since it
636 requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
637 building gnu/usr.bin/grep. To install new texinfo, please follow
638 the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
639
640 20010803:
641 (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
642 `fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand. To build the
643 kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain,
644 (i.e., build.sh -t) or (temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU"
645 from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
646 See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
647 [updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
648
649 20010731:
650 Bootloader update on ELF platforms. DDB in kernels from before
651 this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
652 bootloaders.
653
654 20010726:
655 Texinfo was updated to 4.0. To avoid failures when trying to
656 build the included texinfo files, do:
657
658 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
659 make MKINFO=no dependall install
660
661 20010718:
662 Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0. The way this
663 was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
664 make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
665 timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
666
667 The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
668 if you have a stale dependency.
669
670 Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
671 before starting your build.
672
673 20010628:
674 A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
675 in lint(1). If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
676 bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
677
678 20010226:
679 Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
680 will break as mtree aborts early.
681
682 To work around add by hand:
683
684 named:*:14:
685
686 to /etc/group and add:
687
688 named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
689
690 to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
691
692 Now a make build should progress.
693
694 20010219:
695 get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
696 to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
697
698 Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
699 usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
700 CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
701 usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
702 building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
703
704 20010204:
705 prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
706 particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
707 needs to be installed before make build.
708
709 20010114:
710 introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
711 bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
712 anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
713 with make build.
714
715 20010101:
716 bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
717 afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
718
719 20001230:
720 New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
721 If you get make errors,
722 (cd share/mk; make install)
723 Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
724
725 20001019:
726 The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
727 major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
728 directory.
729
730 20000929:
731 The following make directives are obsoleted.
732 MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA
733 By default, RSA is built into libcrypto. IDEA and RC5 will not be
734 built into libcrypto. By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
735 additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
736
737
738 Hints for a more successful build:
739 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
740 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
741 This will automatically build the tools in the
742 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
743 new build products from interfering with the running
744 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
745 other advice in this file.
746 Build a new kernel first:
747 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
748 expected by the new userland will be present. This
749 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
750 Use object directories:
751 This helps to keep stale object
752 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
753 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
754 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
755 same source tree for multiple machines.
756 To use object directories with build.sh:
757 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
758 To use object directories without using build.sh:
759 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
760 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
761 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
762 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
763 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
764 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
765 Build to a DESTDIR:
766 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
767 from interfering with the new build.
768 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
769 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
770 environment variable before running make build. It should be
771 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
772 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
773 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
774 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
775 (See critical utils, below.)
776 Build often:
777 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
778 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
779 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
780 this problem.
781
782 What to do if things don't work:
783 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
784 When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
785 should be done.
786 1) make includes
787 This should be done automatically by make build.
788 2) cd share/mk && make install
789 Again, automatically done by make build.
790
791 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
792 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
793 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
794 something like the following:
795 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
796 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
797 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
798 3) cd ...path/to/util...
799 make cleandir
800 rm ...all obj directories...
801 make cleandir # yes, again
802 make obj
803 make depend && make
804
805 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
806 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
807 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
808 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
809 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
810 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
811
812 ---cut here---
813 #!/bin/sh
814 . /etc/mk.conf
815
816 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
817 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
818 fi
819 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
820 echo Unable to find sources
821 exit 1
822 fi
823 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
824
825 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
826 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
827 fi
828 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
829 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
830 fi
831
832 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
833
834 ---cut here---
835
836 Critical utilities:
837 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
838 usr.bin/compile_et
839 usr.bin/make
840 usr.bin/yacc
841 usr.bin/lex
842 usr.bin/xlint
843 usr.bin/config
844
845 Other problems and possible solutions:
846 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
847 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
848 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
849 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
850 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
851 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
852
853 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
854 cd share/mk && make install
855
856 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
857 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
858
859 Symptom:
860 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
861
862 Symptom:
863 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
864
865 Symptom:
866 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
867
868 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
869 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
870 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
871 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
872 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
873
874 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
875 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
876
877 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
878 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
879
880 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
881 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
882
883 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
884 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
885
886 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
887 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
888
889 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
890 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
891