UPDATING revision 1.151 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.151 2006/10/09 18:57:30 rpaulo 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 20061009:
20 The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
21 available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
22
23 20060814:
24 The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
25 withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
26 kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
27 few years should cope.
28
29 20060703:
30 MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
31 if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
32 to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
33
34 20060627:
35 socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
36 For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
37 your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
38 errors will result.
39
40 20060526:
41 The kernel linker scripts for i386 and xen
42 (sys/arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript*) were changed to set the
43 load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
44 (like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
45 will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug and ld will fail
46 with an error like:
47 ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript:45 \
48 non constant expression for load base
49 You need to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile
50 and install the linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest
51 way is with a "build.sh tools" command, with any other options
52 that you use normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is
53 installed as ${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
54
55 20060131:
56 the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
57 the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,
58 you need to update ofwboot. After a full build, just copy
59 /usr/mdec/ofwboot to /, or do a rebuild of
60 src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/ofwboot and install the result to /.
61
62 20050917:
63 arch/*/conf/std.* was changed to include conf/std, which
64 contains MI options previously enabled by default.
65 If you have kernel config files which doesn't include
66 arch/*/conf/std.*, you need to edit them to include conf/std
67 to get the previous configuration.
68
69 20050830:
70 named.conf was moved from /etc/namedb to /etc.
71 postinstall(8) migrates this during interactive use.
72 Users of MKUPDATE=yes will need to manually rectify
73 this in their DESTDIR.
74
75 20050825:
76 Some data structures in sys/device.h, related to interface
77 attributes and locator names, were changed. config(1) was
78 modified to emit the new data structures.
79 Thus usr.bin/config must be updated (and run on the kernel
80 configuration file) before a new kernel can be built.
81
82 20050531:
83 genassym.sh(8) was moved to genassym(1). You need to either build
84 tools first or install the version of genassym from /usr/bin before
85 you can build a kernel again.
86
87 20050520:
88 Because a kernfs bug which xentools relies on was fixed,
89 xentools up to xentools20-2.0.3nb4 won't work with new kernel.
90
91 20050417:
92 postinstall(8) was moved from /etc to /usr/sbin and made part
93 of the "base" set, to make it easier to invoke after an
94 upgrade.
95
96 20050325:
97 pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4). Be sure
98 to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
99 configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
100 with wsconsctl. Depending on the default value for the pitch, you
101 might even not hear any more beep. Also, it is advised to attach both
102 devices the same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the
103 pcppi(4) device may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
104
105 20050211:
106 Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
107 some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
108 cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
109 different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
110 make a build continue.
111
112 20050109:
113 Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
114 /etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
115 for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
116 a password).
117
118 20041229:
119 Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
120 being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
121 you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
122 the build.
123
124 20041201:
125 Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
126 /dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
127 MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
128
129 20041006:
130
131 A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
132 variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
133 will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
134 on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
135
136 ident /bin/sh | grep var
137
138 Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
139 before attempting a build.
140
141 20041001:
142 The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
143 dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
144 dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
145 before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
146 ftp-proxy are the victims).
147
148 20040715:
149 The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
150 if sendmail should be started at boot time. It checks the
151 contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
152 owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
153 to the mail infrastructure have been made. If no changes
154 are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
155
156 Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
157
158 If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
159 local delivery, it is important that you also update your
160 sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
161 loopback interface.
162
163 20040715:
164 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
165 kernel builds has been changed again. The latest version
166 of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
167
168 20040621:
169 Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
170 from a clean objdir under tools/*.
171
172 This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
173 to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
174
175 The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
176
177 20040516:
178 The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
179 from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<dir> to /etc/X11/<dir>.
180 Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
181 "make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
182
183 postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
184 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
185 detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
186 manually move these files yourself.
187
188 20040426:
189 Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
190 been removed in favor of the newer layout. This affects
191 consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
192 the dynamic discovery mechanism. This is believed only to
193 be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
194 the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
195 built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
196 will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
197 2004/04/25. If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
198 does not work, make sure that your revision of
199 src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
200 do the following:
201
202 cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
203 make USETOOLS=no includes
204 cd lib/libc
205 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
206 cd ../../sbin/sysctl
207 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
208
209 If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
210 identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
211 "unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that. if that happens,
212 make sure to follow the above steps.
213
214 20040425:
215 The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
216 are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
217 sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
218 invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
219 automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances,
220 affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
221 upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
222 encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
223 filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
224 possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
225
226 20040418:
227 statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
228 installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
229 a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
230 build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
231 clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
232 anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
233 from the libc build directory.
234
235 20040326:
236 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
237 has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
238 and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
239 to build it.
240
241 This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
242 building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
243
244 20040318:
245 A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
246 provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
247 notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
248 ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
249 recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
250 (recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
251
252 20040313:
253 On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
254 the old wsqms driver is now called qms. Kernel config files
255 will need updating. See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
256 for examples.
257
258 20040125:
259 On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
260 needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
261 files.
262
263 20040109:
264 Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
265 added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
266 when using those layouts. If you have been using -current
267 since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
268 superblock mismatches. To repair, make sure you have
269 an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
270 to complete the filesystem upgrade. A message has
271 been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
272 See the following discussion for more information:
273 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
274
275 20031203:
276 New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
277 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
278 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
279
280 20031111:
281 A newer mkdep is needed. Error noting that is
282 cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
283
284 20031008:
285 /usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
286 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
287 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
288
289 20031007:
290 A sign exension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
291 of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags. This should only
292 affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
293 A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
294 should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
295 to the kernel which should discover and warn about it. See
296 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
297
298 20030906:
299 With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
300 code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
301 kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
302
303 20030801:
304 With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
305 rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
306 /usr/lib/libdes* before building.
307
308 20030703:
309 Texinfo was updated to 4.6. To avoid failures when trying to
310 build the included texinfo files, do:
311
312 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
313 make MKINFO=no dependall install
314
315 20030630:
316 Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
317 cd share/mk && make install
318 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
319 make MKMAN=no dependall install
320 (untested).
321
322 20030516:
323 Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
324 were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
325 mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
326 been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
327 export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
328 make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
329 file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
330 a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
331
332 20030402:
333 The superblock layout for FFS was changed. If you have 1.6
334 fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
335 with the first alternate, because they compare too many
336 fields (even ones that aren't useful). If possible, upgrade
337 your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
338 None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
339
340 20030324:
341 sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported. Since sendmail is
342 now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
343 mode for most common activities, there is a new config
344 file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
345 The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
346 is named netbsd-msp.cf. Upgrading your regular sendmail
347 configuration file is also strongly advised.
348
349 See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
350 the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
351 information.
352
353 20030117:
354 Texinfo was updated to 4.3. To avoid failures when trying to
355 build the included texinfo files, do:
356
357 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
358 make MKINFO=no dependall install
359
360 20021223:
361 The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
362 "${DESTDIR}" from path names.
363 This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
364 For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
365 update tools/mtree, before running make build.
366
367 20021219:
368 CVS repository layout was changed. See the following for details
369 if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
370
371 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
372
373 20021219:
374 install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
375 alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
376 of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
377
378 The build system was modified to take advantage of
379 this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
380 use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
381 reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
382
383 20021130:
384 fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
385 If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
386 and rebuild libc:
387 make includes
388 make do-lib-libc
389 If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
390 before rebuilding the tools.
391
392 20021126:
393 The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
394 including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
395 All header files, including <sys/*.h> are copied into
396 /usr/include.
397
398 20021121:
399 The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
400 (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
401 split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
402 This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
403 new libraries are installed. The process of rebuilding
404 libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
405 required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
406 do this.
407
408 An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
409 which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
410 their global contructors/destructors will not be invoked.
411
412 20021121:
413 A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
414 corrected.
415
416 NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
417 default. However, the assembler lacked support for marking
418 objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
419 compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
420 to the assembler.
421
422 Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
423 old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
424 incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
425
426 The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
427 a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
428 against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
429 markings. ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
430 WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
431
432 The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
433 the libraries on the system. The easiest way to do this for
434 system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
435 generally available on releng.NetBSD.org. Any packages you
436 have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
437 if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
438
439 If you have questions about this matter, please contact
440 port-arm (a] NetBSD.org.
441
442 20021011:
443 Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
444 Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
445 to be rebuilt.
446
447 20021010:
448 The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
449 dependencies on attributes, as well as other options. Users
450 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
451 kernel.
452
453 20021009:
454 A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
455 which is now used by the SCSI configuration description. Users
456 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
457 kernel.
458
459 20021003:
460 Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
461 framework. Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
462 before building a new kernel.
463
464 20021001:
465 The i386mp branch has been merged. To compile a kernel, users
466 will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
467 file. Multiprocessor kernels will need
468 ioapic* at mainbus? apid ?
469 options MULTIPROCESSOR
470 options COM_MPLOCK
471
472 20020922:
473 MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
474 certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
475 linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
476 and /sbin are dynamically linked.
477 If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
478 you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
479 with:
480 make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
481
482 20020917:
483 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
484 - TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
485 there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
486 x86_64).
487 - EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
488 root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu). This
489 enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
490 platforms.
491
492 20020906:
493 gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
494 reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
495
496 20020822:
497 Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
498 are now provided in /rescue.
499
500 To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
501 what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
502 from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
503
504 20020820:
505 crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
506 is statically linked.
507
508 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
509
510 20020605:
511 smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
512
513 Add the following into /etc/group:
514
515 smmsp:*:17:
516
517 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
518
519 smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
520
521 20020515:
522 sshd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in, or sshd
523 will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivlegeSeparation=yes)
524
525 Add the following into /etc/group:
526
527 sshd:*:16:
528
529 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
530
531 sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
532
533 Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
534 the build process).
535
536 20020426:
537 NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
538
539 20020426:
540 etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for
541 configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
542 the problems identified.
543 This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
544 configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
545
546 20020320:
547 <bsd.lib.mk> needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
548 Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
549
550 20020319:
551 Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
552 on send(2) operation. Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
553 newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
554
555 20020311:
556 ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh. Beware
557 if you restart your machine from remote. Note that sshd.conf needs
558 to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
559
560 20020223:
561 Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
562 so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
563 the VAX assembly files.
564
565 20020118:
566 ntpd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in or builds
567 will break as mtree aborts early.
568
569 Add the following into /etc/group:
570
571 ntpd:*:15:
572
573 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
574
575 ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
576
577 20011207:
578 If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
579 reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
580 toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
581
582 To fix:
583
584 Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
585 Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
586
587 gnu/lib/libgcc
588 gnu/lib/libstdc++
589
590 After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
591
592 20011201:
593 In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
594 you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
595 point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
596 point is broken.
597
598 To build:
599
600 remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
601 remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
602 against the new libgcc.a)
603
604 20011128:
605 Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
606 the various "files" files. Bug fixes to config(8) are
607 required in order for this to work properly. Make sure
608 to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
609 to build a new kernel.
610
611 20011030:
612 libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
613 before building libc.
614
615 20011029:
616 The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
617 see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
618 procedure in great detail. BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
619 build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
620 manual update log.
621
622 Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
623 BUILDING document for caveats. Generally, BUILDING supersedes
624 UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
625 by the new build system.
626
627 20011028:
628 src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
629 symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
630 prevented this was corrected.
631
632 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
633 Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
634 for you.
635
636 20011006:
637 /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
638 absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
639 understand the format.
640
641 Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
642
643 20011004:
644 Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
645 is suggested before running a snapshot build
646
647 20010915:
648 The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
649 a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h. There may be stale .depend
650 files that still reference this file.
651
652 Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
653 directories.
654
655 20010803:
656 grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo. Since it
657 requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
658 building gnu/usr.bin/grep. To install new texinfo, please follow
659 the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
660
661 20010803:
662 (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
663 `fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand. To build the
664 kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain,
665 (i.e., build.sh -t) or (temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU"
666 from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
667 See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
668 [updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
669
670 20010731:
671 Bootloader update on ELF platforms. DDB in kernels from before
672 this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
673 bootloaders.
674
675 20010726:
676 Texinfo was updated to 4.0. To avoid failures when trying to
677 build the included texinfo files, do:
678
679 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
680 make MKINFO=no dependall install
681
682 20010718:
683 Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0. The way this
684 was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
685 make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
686 timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
687
688 The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
689 if you have a stale dependency.
690
691 Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
692 before starting your build.
693
694 20010628:
695 A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
696 in lint(1). If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
697 bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
698
699 20010226:
700 Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
701 will break as mtree aborts early.
702
703 To work around add by hand:
704
705 named:*:14:
706
707 to /etc/group and add:
708
709 named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
710
711 to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
712
713 Now a make build should progress.
714
715 20010219:
716 get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
717 to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
718
719 Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
720 usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
721 CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
722 usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
723 building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
724
725 20010204:
726 prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
727 particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
728 needs to be installed before make build.
729
730 20010114:
731 introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
732 bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
733 anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
734 with make build.
735
736 20010101:
737 bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
738 afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
739
740 20001230:
741 New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
742 If you get make errors,
743 (cd share/mk; make install)
744 Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
745
746 20001019:
747 The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
748 major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
749 directory.
750
751 20000929:
752 The following make directives are obsoleted.
753 MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA
754 By default, RSA is built into libcrypto. IDEA and RC5 will not be
755 built into libcrypto. By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
756 additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
757
758
759 Hints for a more successful build:
760 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
761 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
762 This will automatically build the tools in the
763 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
764 new build products from interfering with the running
765 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
766 other advice in this file.
767 Build a new kernel first:
768 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
769 expected by the new userland will be present. This
770 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
771 Use object directories:
772 This helps to keep stale object
773 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
774 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
775 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
776 same source tree for multiple machines.
777 To use object directories with build.sh:
778 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
779 To use object directories without using build.sh:
780 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
781 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
782 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
783 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
784 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
785 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
786 Build to a DESTDIR:
787 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
788 from interfering with the new build.
789 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
790 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
791 environment variable before running make build. It should be
792 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
793 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
794 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
795 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
796 (See critical utils, below.)
797 Build often:
798 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
799 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
800 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
801 this problem.
802
803 What to do if things don't work:
804 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
805 When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
806 should be done.
807 1) make includes
808 This should be done automatically by make build.
809 2) cd share/mk && make install
810 Again, automatically done by make build.
811
812 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
813 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
814 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
815 something like the following:
816 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
817 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
818 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
819 3) cd ...path/to/util...
820 make cleandir
821 rm ...all obj directories...
822 make cleandir # yes, again
823 make obj
824 make depend && make
825
826 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
827 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
828 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
829 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
830 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
831 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
832
833 ---cut here---
834 #!/bin/sh
835 . /etc/mk.conf
836
837 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
838 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
839 fi
840 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
841 echo Unable to find sources
842 exit 1
843 fi
844 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
845
846 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
847 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
848 fi
849 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
850 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
851 fi
852
853 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
854
855 ---cut here---
856
857 Critical utilities:
858 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
859 usr.bin/compile_et
860 usr.bin/make
861 usr.bin/yacc
862 usr.bin/lex
863 usr.bin/xlint
864 usr.bin/config
865
866 Other problems and possible solutions:
867 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
868 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
869 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
870 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
871 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
872 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
873
874 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
875 cd share/mk && make install
876
877 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
878 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
879
880 Symptom:
881 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
882
883 Symptom:
884 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
885
886 Symptom:
887 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
888
889 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
890 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
891 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
892 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
893 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
894
895 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
896 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
897
898 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
899 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
900
901 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
902 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
903
904 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
905 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
906
907 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
908 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
909
910 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
911 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
912