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UPDATING revision 1.150
      1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.150 2006/08/15 20:48:01 bjh21 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 20060814:
     20 	The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
     21 	withdrawn.  Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead.  See the GENERIC
     22 	kernel configuration for an example.  X servers from the last
     23 	few years should cope.
     24 
     25 20060703:
     26 	MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
     27 	if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
     28 	to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
     29 
     30 20060627:
     31 	socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
     32 	For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
     33 	your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
     34 	errors will result.
     35 
     36 20060526:
     37 	The kernel linker scripts for i386 and xen 
     38 	(sys/arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript*) were changed to set the
     39 	load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
     40 	(like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
     41 	will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug and ld will fail
     42 	with an error like:
     43 	    ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript:45 \
     44 		non constant expression for load base
     45 	You need to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile
     46 	and install the linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest
     47 	way is with a "build.sh tools" command, with any other options
     48 	that you use normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is
     49 	installed as ${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
     50 
     51 20060131:
     52 	the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
     53 	the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,
     54 	you need to update ofwboot. After a full build, just copy
     55 	/usr/mdec/ofwboot to /, or do a rebuild of
     56 	src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/ofwboot and install the result to /.
     57 
     58 20050917:
     59 	arch/*/conf/std.* was changed to include conf/std, which
     60 	contains MI options previously enabled by default.
     61 	If you have kernel config files which doesn't include
     62 	arch/*/conf/std.*, you need to edit them to include conf/std
     63 	to get the previous configuration.
     64 
     65 20050830:
     66 	named.conf was moved from /etc/namedb to /etc.
     67 	postinstall(8) migrates this during interactive use.
     68 	Users of MKUPDATE=yes will need to manually rectify
     69 	this in their DESTDIR.
     70 
     71 20050825:
     72 	Some data structures in sys/device.h, related to interface
     73 	attributes and locator names, were changed. config(1) was
     74 	modified to emit the new data structures.
     75 	Thus usr.bin/config must be updated (and run on the kernel
     76 	configuration file) before a new kernel can be built.
     77 
     78 20050531:
     79 	genassym.sh(8) was moved to genassym(1). You need to either build
     80 	tools first or install the version of genassym from /usr/bin before
     81 	you can build a kernel again.
     82 
     83 20050520:
     84 	Because a kernfs bug which xentools relies on was fixed,
     85 	xentools up to xentools20-2.0.3nb4 won't work with new kernel.
     86 
     87 20050417:
     88 	postinstall(8) was moved from /etc to /usr/sbin and made part
     89 	of the "base" set, to make it easier to invoke after an
     90 	upgrade.
     91 
     92 20050325:
     93 	pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4).  Be sure
     94 	to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
     95 	configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
     96 	with wsconsctl.  Depending on the default value for the pitch, you
     97 	might even not hear any more beep.  Also, it is advised to attach both
     98 	devices the same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the
     99 	pcppi(4) device may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
    100 
    101 20050211:
    102 	Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
    103 	some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
    104 	cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
    105 	different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
    106 	make a build continue.
    107 
    108 20050109:
    109 	Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
    110 	/etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
    111 	for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
    112 	a password).
    113 
    114 20041229:
    115 	Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
    116 	being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
    117 	you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
    118 	the build.
    119 
    120 20041201:
    121 	Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
    122 	/dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
    123 	MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
    124 
    125 20041006:
    126 
    127 	A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
    128 	variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
    129 	will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
    130 	on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
    131 
    132         ident /bin/sh | grep var
    133 
    134 	Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
    135 	before attempting a build.
    136 	
    137 20041001:
    138 	The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
    139 	dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
    140 	dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
    141 	before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
    142 	ftp-proxy are the victims).
    143 
    144 20040715:
    145 	The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
    146 	if sendmail should be started at boot time.  It checks the
    147 	contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
    148 	owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
    149 	to the mail infrastructure have been made.  If no changes
    150 	are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
    151 
    152 	Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
    153 
    154 	If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
    155 	local delivery, it is important that you also update your
    156 	sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
    157 	loopback interface.
    158 
    159 20040715:
    160 	The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
    161 	kernel builds has been changed again.  The latest version
    162 	of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
    163 
    164 20040621:
    165 	Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
    166 	from a clean objdir under tools/*.
    167 
    168 	This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
    169 	to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
    170 
    171 	The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
    172 
    173 20040516:
    174 	The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
    175 	from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<dir> to /etc/X11/<dir>.
    176 	Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
    177 	"make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
    178 
    179 	postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
    180 	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
    181 	detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
    182 	manually move these files yourself.
    183 
    184 20040426:
    185 	Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
    186 	been removed in favor of the newer layout.  This affects
    187 	consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
    188 	the dynamic discovery mechanism.  This is believed only to
    189 	be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
    190 	the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
    191 	built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
    192 	will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
    193 	2004/04/25.  If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
    194 	does not work, make sure that your revision of
    195 	src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
    196 	do the following:
    197 
    198 	cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
    199 	make USETOOLS=no includes
    200 	cd lib/libc
    201 	make USETOOLS=no dependall install
    202 	cd ../../sbin/sysctl
    203 	make USETOOLS=no dependall install
    204 
    205 	If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
    206 	identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
    207 	"unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that.  if that happens,
    208 	make sure to follow the above steps.
    209 
    210 20040425:
    211 	The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
    212 	are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
    213 	sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
    214 	invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
    215 	automated by those scripts.  Note that under certain circumstances,
    216 	affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
    217 	upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
    218 	encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
    219 	filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
    220 	possible.  For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
    221 
    222 20040418:
    223 	statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
    224 	installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
    225 	a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
    226 	build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
    227 	clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
    228 	anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
    229 	from the libc build directory.
    230 
    231 20040326:
    232 	The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
    233 	has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
    234 	and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
    235 	to build it.
    236 
    237 	This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
    238 	building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
    239 
    240 20040318:
    241 	A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
    242 	provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
    243 	notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
    244 	ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
    245 	recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
    246 	(recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
    247 
    248 20040313:
    249 	On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
    250 	the old wsqms driver is now called qms.  Kernel config files
    251 	will need updating.  See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
    252 	for examples.
    253 
    254 20040125:
    255 	On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
    256 	needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
    257 	files.
    258 
    259 20040109:
    260 	Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
    261 	added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
    262 	when using those layouts.  If you have been using -current
    263 	since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
    264 	superblock mismatches.  To repair, make sure you have
    265 	an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
    266 	to complete the filesystem upgrade.  A message has
    267 	been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
    268 	See the following discussion for more information:
    269 	http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
    270 
    271 20031203:
    272 	New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
    273 	It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
    274 	the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
    275 
    276 20031111:
    277 	A newer mkdep is needed.  Error noting that is
    278 		cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
    279 
    280 20031008:
    281 	/usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
    282 	It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
    283 	the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
    284 
    285 20031007:
    286 	A sign exension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
    287 	of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags.  This should only
    288 	affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
    289 	A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
    290 	should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
    291 	to the kernel which should discover and warn about it.  See
    292 	http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
    293 
    294 20030906:
    295 	With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
    296 	code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
    297 	kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
    298 
    299 20030801:
    300 	With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
    301 	rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
    302 	/usr/lib/libdes* before building.
    303 
    304 20030703:
    305 	Texinfo was updated to 4.6.  To avoid failures when trying to
    306 	build the included texinfo files, do:
    307 
    308 	cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
    309 	make MKINFO=no dependall install
    310 
    311 20030630:
    312 	Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
    313 		cd share/mk && make install
    314 		cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
    315 		make MKMAN=no dependall install
    316 	(untested).
    317 
    318 20030516:
    319 	Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
    320 	were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
    321 	mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
    322 	been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
    323 	export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
    324 	make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
    325 	file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
    326 	a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
    327 
    328 20030402:
    329 	The superblock layout for FFS was changed.  If you have 1.6
    330 	fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
    331 	with the first alternate, because they compare too many
    332 	fields (even ones that aren't useful).  If possible, upgrade
    333 	your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
    334 	None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
    335 
    336 20030324:
    337 	sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported.  Since sendmail is
    338 	now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
    339 	mode for most common activities, there is a new config
    340 	file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
    341 	The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
    342 	is named netbsd-msp.cf.  Upgrading your regular sendmail
    343 	configuration file is also strongly advised.
    344 
    345 	See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
    346 	the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
    347 	information.
    348 
    349 20030117:
    350 	Texinfo was updated to 4.3.  To avoid failures when trying to
    351 	build the included texinfo files, do:
    352 
    353 	cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
    354 	make MKINFO=no dependall install
    355 
    356 20021223:
    357 	The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
    358 	"${DESTDIR}" from path names.
    359 	This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
    360 	For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
    361 	update tools/mtree, before running make build.
    362 
    363 20021219:
    364 	CVS repository layout was changed.  See the following for details
    365 	if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
    366 
    367 	http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
    368 
    369 20021219:
    370 	install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
    371 	alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
    372 	of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
    373 
    374 	The build system was modified to take advantage of
    375 	this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
    376 	use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
    377 	reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
    378 
    379 20021130:
    380 	fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
    381 	If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
    382 	and rebuild libc:
    383 		make includes
    384 		make do-lib-libc
    385 	If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
    386 	before rebuilding the tools.
    387 
    388 20021126:
    389 	The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
    390 	including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
    391 	All header files, including <sys/*.h> are copied into
    392 	/usr/include.
    393 
    394 20021121:
    395 	The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
    396 	(and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
    397 	split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
    398 	This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
    399 	new libraries are installed.  The process of rebuilding
    400 	libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
    401 	required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
    402 	do this.
    403 
    404 	An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
    405 	which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
    406 	their global contructors/destructors will not be invoked.
    407 
    408 20021121:
    409 	A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
    410 	corrected.
    411 
    412 	NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
    413 	default.  However, the assembler lacked support for marking
    414 	objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
    415 	compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
    416 	to the assembler.
    417 
    418 	Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
    419 	old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
    420 	incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
    421 
    422 	The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
    423 	a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
    424 	against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
    425 	markings.  ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
    426 	WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
    427 
    428 	The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
    429 	the libraries on the system.  The easiest way to do this for
    430 	system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
    431 	generally available on releng.NetBSD.org.  Any packages you
    432 	have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
    433 	if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
    434 
    435 	If you have questions about this matter, please contact
    436 	port-arm (a] NetBSD.org.
    437 
    438 20021011:
    439 	Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
    440 	Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
    441 	to be rebuilt.
    442 
    443 20021010:
    444 	The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
    445 	dependencies on attributes, as well as other options.  Users
    446 	must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
    447 	kernel.
    448 
    449 20021009:
    450 	A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
    451 	which is now used by the SCSI configuration description.  Users
    452 	must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
    453 	kernel.
    454 
    455 20021003:
    456 	Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
    457 	framework.  Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
    458 	before building a new kernel.
    459 
    460 20021001:
    461 	The i386mp branch has been merged.  To compile a kernel, users
    462 	will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
    463 	file.  Multiprocessor kernels will need
    464 	ioapic*		at mainbus? apid ?
    465 	options		MULTIPROCESSOR
    466 	options		COM_MPLOCK
    467 
    468 20020922:
    469 	MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
    470 	certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
    471 	linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
    472 	and /sbin are dynamically linked.
    473 	If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
    474 	you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
    475 	with:
    476 		make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
    477 
    478 20020917:
    479 	USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
    480 	    -	TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
    481 		there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
    482 		x86_64).
    483 	    -	EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
    484 		root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu).  This
    485 		enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
    486 		platforms.
    487 
    488 20020906:
    489 	gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
    490 	reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
    491 
    492 20020822:
    493 	Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
    494 	are now provided in /rescue.
    495 
    496 	To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
    497 	what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
    498 	from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
    499 
    500 20020820:
    501 	crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
    502 	is statically linked.
    503 
    504 	Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
    505 
    506 20020605:
    507 	smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
    508 
    509 	Add the following into /etc/group:
    510 
    511 	smmsp:*:17:
    512 
    513 	and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
    514 
    515 	smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
    516 
    517 20020515:
    518 	sshd user/group has been added.  Need to hand add this in, or sshd
    519 	will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivlegeSeparation=yes)
    520 
    521 	Add the following into /etc/group:
    522 
    523 	sshd:*:16:
    524 
    525 	and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
    526 
    527 	sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
    528 	
    529 	Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
    530 	the build process).
    531 
    532 20020426:
    533 	NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
    534 
    535 20020426:
    536 	etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for 
    537 	configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
    538 	the problems identified.
    539 	This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
    540 	configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
    541 
    542 20020320:
    543 	<bsd.lib.mk> needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
    544 	Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
    545 
    546 20020319:
    547 	Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
    548 	on send(2) operation.  Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
    549 	newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
    550 
    551 20020311:
    552 	ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh.  Beware
    553 	if you restart your machine from remote.  Note that sshd.conf needs
    554 	to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
    555 
    556 20020223:
    557 	Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
    558 	so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
    559 	the VAX assembly files.
    560 
    561 20020118:
    562 	ntpd user/group has been added.  Need to hand add this in or builds
    563 	will break as mtree aborts early.
    564 
    565 	Add the following into /etc/group:
    566 
    567 	ntpd:*:15:
    568 
    569 	and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
    570 
    571 	ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
    572 
    573 20011207:
    574 	If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
    575 	reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
    576 	toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
    577 
    578 	To fix:
    579 
    580 	Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
    581 	Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
    582 
    583 	gnu/lib/libgcc
    584 	gnu/lib/libstdc++
    585 
    586 	After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
    587 
    588 20011201:
    589 	In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
    590 	you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
    591 	point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
    592 	point is broken. 
    593 
    594 	To build:
    595 
    596 	remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
    597 	remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
    598 	against the new libgcc.a)
    599 
    600 20011128:
    601 	Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
    602 	the various "files" files.  Bug fixes to config(8) are
    603 	required in order for this to work properly.  Make sure
    604 	to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
    605 	to build a new kernel.
    606 
    607 20011030:
    608 	libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
    609 	before building libc.
    610 
    611 20011029:
    612 	The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
    613 	see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
    614 	procedure in great detail.  BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
    615 	build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
    616 	manual update log.
    617 
    618 	Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
    619 	BUILDING document for caveats.  Generally, BUILDING supersedes
    620 	UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
    621 	by the new build system.
    622 
    623 20011028:
    624 	src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
    625 	symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
    626 	prevented this was corrected.
    627 
    628 	Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
    629 	Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
    630 	for you.
    631 
    632 20011006:
    633 	/etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
    634 	absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
    635 	understand the format.
    636 
    637 	Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
    638 
    639 20011004:
    640 	Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
    641 	is suggested before running a snapshot build
    642 
    643 20010915:
    644 	The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
    645 	a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h.  There may be stale .depend
    646 	files that still reference this file.
    647 
    648 	Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
    649 	directories.
    650 
    651 20010803:
    652 	grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo.  Since it
    653 	requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
    654 	building gnu/usr.bin/grep.  To install new texinfo, please follow
    655 	the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
    656 
    657 20010803: 
    658 	(i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
    659 	`fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand.  To build the
    660 	kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain, 
    661 	(i.e., build.sh -t) or 	(temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU" 
    662 	from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
    663 	See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
    664 	[updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
    665 
    666 20010731:
    667 	Bootloader update on ELF platforms.  DDB in kernels from before
    668 	this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
    669 	bootloaders.
    670 
    671 20010726:
    672 	Texinfo was updated to 4.0.  To avoid failures when trying to
    673 	build the included texinfo files, do:
    674 
    675 	cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
    676 	make MKINFO=no dependall install
    677 
    678 20010718:
    679 	Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0.  The way this
    680 	was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
    681 	make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
    682 	timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
    683 
    684 	The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
    685 	if you have a stale dependency.
    686 
    687 	Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
    688 	before starting your build.
    689 
    690 20010628:
    691 	A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
    692 	in lint(1).  If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
    693 	bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
    694 
    695 20010226:
    696 	Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
    697 	will break as mtree aborts early.
    698 
    699 	To work around add by hand:
    700 
    701 	named:*:14:
    702 
    703 	to /etc/group and add:
    704 
    705 	named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
    706 
    707 	to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
    708 
    709 	Now a make build should progress.
    710 
    711 20010219:
    712 	get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
    713 	to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
    714 
    715 	Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
    716 			usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
    717 			  CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
    718 			usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
    719 			  building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
    720 
    721 20010204:
    722 	prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
    723 	particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
    724 	needs to be installed before make build.
    725 
    726 20010114:
    727 	introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
    728 	bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
    729 	anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
    730 	with make build.
    731 
    732 20010101:
    733 	bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
    734 	afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
    735 
    736 20001230:
    737 	New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
    738 	If you get make errors, 
    739 		(cd share/mk; make install)
    740 	Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
    741 
    742 20001019:
    743 	The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
    744 	major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
    745 	directory.
    746 
    747 20000929:
    748 	The following make directives are obsoleted.
    749 	MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA 
    750 	By default, RSA is built into libcrypto.  IDEA and RC5 will not be
    751 	built into libcrypto.  By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
    752 	additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
    753 
    754 
    755 Hints for a more successful build:
    756 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    757     Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
    758 	This will automatically build the tools in the
    759 	   correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
    760 	   new build products from interfering with the running
    761 	   system.  This will allow you to ignore most of the
    762 	   other advice in this file.
    763     Build a new kernel first:
    764 	This makes sure that any new system calls or features
    765 	   expected by the new userland will be present.  This
    766 	   helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
    767     Use object directories:
    768 	This helps to keep stale object
    769 	   files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
    770 	   about one.  It also makes it easier to clean up after
    771 	   a build.  It's also necessary if you want to use the
    772 	   same source tree for multiple machines.
    773 	   To use object directories with build.sh:
    774 	    a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
    775 	   To use object directories without using build.sh:
    776 	    a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
    777 	    b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
    778 	    c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
    779 	    d) cd /usr/src ; make build
    780 	   Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
    781 	   in obj.$MACHINE directory.
    782     Build to a DESTDIR:
    783 	This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
    784 	   from interfering with the new build.
    785 	   To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
    786 	   To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
    787 	   environment variable before running make build.  It should be
    788 	   set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
    789 	   Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
    790 		update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
    791 		nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
    792 		(See critical utils, below.)
    793     Build often:
    794 	This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
    795 	on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
    796 	date functionality.  If you use build.sh, you should not have
    797 	this problem.
    798  
    799 What to do if things don't work:
    800 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    801 When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
    802 should be done.
    803     1)	make includes
    804 	This should be done automatically by make build.
    805     2)  cd share/mk && make install
    806 	Again, automatically done by make build.
    807 
    808 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
    809 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    810 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
    811 something like the following:
    812     1)  Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
    813     2)  Make sure any program used to build the particular
    814 	utility is up to date.  (yacc, lex, etc...)
    815     3)  cd ...path/to/util...
    816 	make cleandir
    817 	rm ...all obj directories...
    818 	make cleandir			# yes, again
    819 	make obj
    820 	make depend && make
    821 
    822 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
    823 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    824 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
    825 ready for a build try the following.  Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
    826 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
    827 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
    828 
    829 ---cut here---
    830 #!/bin/sh
    831 . /etc/mk.conf
    832 
    833 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
    834     NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
    835 fi
    836 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
    837     echo Unable to find sources
    838     exit 1
    839 fi
    840 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
    841 
    842 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
    843     BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
    844 fi
    845 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
    846     rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
    847 fi
    848 
    849 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
    850 
    851 ---cut here---
    852 
    853 Critical utilities:
    854 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    855 	usr.bin/compile_et
    856 	usr.bin/make
    857 	usr.bin/yacc
    858 	usr.bin/lex
    859 	usr.bin/xlint
    860 	usr.bin/config
    861 
    862 Other problems and possible solutions:
    863 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    864 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
    865 Fix:	Rebuild usr.bin/make:
    866 	cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
    867 	Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
    868 	cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
    869 
    870 Fix:	Make sure .mk files are up to date.
    871 	cd share/mk && make install
    872 
    873 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
    874 Fix:	Rebuild usr.bin/config
    875 
    876 Symptom:
    877 Fix:	Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
    878 
    879 Symptom:
    880 Fix:	Rebuild usr.bin/lex
    881 
    882 Symptom:
    883 Fix:	rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
    884 
    885 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
    886 Fix:	Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
    887 	make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
    888 	(If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
    889 	may remain.  The command tries to clean everything up)
    890 
    891 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
    892 Fix:	Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
    893 
    894 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
    895 Fix:	Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
    896 
    897 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
    898 Fix:    Rebuild and install lib/libc
    899 
    900 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
    901 Fix:	Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
    902 
    903 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
    904 Fix:    Rebuild and install lib/libc
    905 
    906 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
    907 Fix:    May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
    908