UPDATING revision 1.152.6.1 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.152.6.1 2009/06/05 17:01:43 snj 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 20090529:
20 pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
21 detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
22 ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
23
24 audit-packages.conf(5) has been superseded by pkg_install.conf(5).
25 The default configuration is the same. Support for pkg_view(1) has
26 been retired. The functionality of audit-packages(1) and
27 download-vulnerability-list(1) has moved into pkg_admin(1), wrapper
28 scripts that handle the common use cases are provided.
29
30 20061108:
31 The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
32 changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
33 does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
34 make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
35
36 20061009:
37 The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
38 available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
39
40 20060814:
41 The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
42 withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
43 kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
44 few years should cope.
45
46 20060703:
47 MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
48 if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
49 to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
50
51 20060627:
52 socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
53 For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
54 your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
55 errors will result.
56
57 20060526:
58 The kernel linker scripts for i386 and xen
59 (sys/arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript*) were changed to set the
60 load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
61 (like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
62 will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug and ld will fail
63 with an error like:
64 ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript:45 \
65 non constant expression for load base
66 You need to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile
67 and install the linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest
68 way is with a "build.sh tools" command, with any other options
69 that you use normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is
70 installed as ${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
71
72 20060131:
73 the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
74 the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,
75 you need to update ofwboot. After a full build, just copy
76 /usr/mdec/ofwboot to /, or do a rebuild of
77 src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/ofwboot and install the result to /.
78
79 20050917:
80 arch/*/conf/std.* was changed to include conf/std, which
81 contains MI options previously enabled by default.
82 If you have kernel config files which doesn't include
83 arch/*/conf/std.*, you need to edit them to include conf/std
84 to get the previous configuration.
85
86 20050830:
87 named.conf was moved from /etc/namedb to /etc.
88 postinstall(8) migrates this during interactive use.
89 Users of MKUPDATE=yes will need to manually rectify
90 this in their DESTDIR.
91
92 20050825:
93 Some data structures in sys/device.h, related to interface
94 attributes and locator names, were changed. config(1) was
95 modified to emit the new data structures.
96 Thus usr.bin/config must be updated (and run on the kernel
97 configuration file) before a new kernel can be built.
98
99 20050531:
100 genassym.sh(8) was moved to genassym(1). You need to either build
101 tools first or install the version of genassym from /usr/bin before
102 you can build a kernel again.
103
104 20050520:
105 Because a kernfs bug which xentools relies on was fixed,
106 xentools up to xentools20-2.0.3nb4 won't work with new kernel.
107
108 20050417:
109 postinstall(8) was moved from /etc to /usr/sbin and made part
110 of the "base" set, to make it easier to invoke after an
111 upgrade.
112
113 20050325:
114 pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4). Be sure
115 to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
116 configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
117 with wsconsctl. Depending on the default value for the pitch, you
118 might even not hear any more beep. Also, it is advised to attach both
119 devices the same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the
120 pcppi(4) device may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
121
122 20050211:
123 Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
124 some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
125 cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
126 different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
127 make a build continue.
128
129 20050109:
130 Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
131 /etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
132 for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
133 a password).
134
135 20041229:
136 Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
137 being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
138 you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
139 the build.
140
141 20041201:
142 Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
143 /dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
144 MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
145
146 20041006:
147
148 A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
149 variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
150 will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
151 on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
152
153 ident /bin/sh | grep var
154
155 Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
156 before attempting a build.
157
158 20041001:
159 The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
160 dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
161 dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
162 before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
163 ftp-proxy are the victims).
164
165 20040715:
166 The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
167 if sendmail should be started at boot time. It checks the
168 contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
169 owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
170 to the mail infrastructure have been made. If no changes
171 are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
172
173 Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
174
175 If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
176 local delivery, it is important that you also update your
177 sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
178 loopback interface.
179
180 20040715:
181 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
182 kernel builds has been changed again. The latest version
183 of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
184
185 20040621:
186 Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
187 from a clean objdir under tools/*.
188
189 This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
190 to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
191
192 The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
193
194 20040516:
195 The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
196 from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<dir> to /etc/X11/<dir>.
197 Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
198 "make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
199
200 postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
201 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
202 detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
203 manually move these files yourself.
204
205 20040426:
206 Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
207 been removed in favor of the newer layout. This affects
208 consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
209 the dynamic discovery mechanism. This is believed only to
210 be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
211 the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
212 built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
213 will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
214 2004/04/25. If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
215 does not work, make sure that your revision of
216 src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
217 do the following:
218
219 cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
220 make USETOOLS=no includes
221 cd lib/libc
222 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
223 cd ../../sbin/sysctl
224 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
225
226 If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
227 identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
228 "unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that. if that happens,
229 make sure to follow the above steps.
230
231 20040425:
232 The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
233 are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
234 sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
235 invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
236 automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances,
237 affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
238 upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
239 encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
240 filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
241 possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
242
243 20040418:
244 statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
245 installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
246 a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
247 build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
248 clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
249 anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
250 from the libc build directory.
251
252 20040326:
253 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
254 has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
255 and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
256 to build it.
257
258 This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
259 building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
260
261 20040318:
262 A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
263 provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
264 notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
265 ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
266 recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
267 (recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
268
269 20040313:
270 On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
271 the old wsqms driver is now called qms. Kernel config files
272 will need updating. See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
273 for examples.
274
275 20040125:
276 On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
277 needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
278 files.
279
280 20040109:
281 Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
282 added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
283 when using those layouts. If you have been using -current
284 since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
285 superblock mismatches. To repair, make sure you have
286 an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
287 to complete the filesystem upgrade. A message has
288 been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
289 See the following discussion for more information:
290 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
291
292 20031203:
293 New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
294 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
295 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
296
297 20031111:
298 A newer mkdep is needed. Error noting that is
299 cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
300
301 20031008:
302 /usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
303 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
304 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
305
306 20031007:
307 A sign exension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
308 of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags. This should only
309 affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
310 A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
311 should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
312 to the kernel which should discover and warn about it. See
313 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
314
315 20030906:
316 With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
317 code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
318 kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
319
320 20030801:
321 With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
322 rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
323 /usr/lib/libdes* before building.
324
325 20030703:
326 Texinfo was updated to 4.6. To avoid failures when trying to
327 build the included texinfo files, do:
328
329 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
330 make MKINFO=no dependall install
331
332 20030630:
333 Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
334 cd share/mk && make install
335 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
336 make MKMAN=no dependall install
337 (untested).
338
339 20030516:
340 Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
341 were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
342 mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
343 been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
344 export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
345 make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
346 file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
347 a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
348
349 20030402:
350 The superblock layout for FFS was changed. If you have 1.6
351 fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
352 with the first alternate, because they compare too many
353 fields (even ones that aren't useful). If possible, upgrade
354 your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
355 None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
356
357 20030324:
358 sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported. Since sendmail is
359 now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
360 mode for most common activities, there is a new config
361 file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
362 The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
363 is named netbsd-msp.cf. Upgrading your regular sendmail
364 configuration file is also strongly advised.
365
366 See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
367 the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
368 information.
369
370 20030117:
371 Texinfo was updated to 4.3. To avoid failures when trying to
372 build the included texinfo files, do:
373
374 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
375 make MKINFO=no dependall install
376
377 20021223:
378 The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
379 "${DESTDIR}" from path names.
380 This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
381 For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
382 update tools/mtree, before running make build.
383
384 20021219:
385 CVS repository layout was changed. See the following for details
386 if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
387
388 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
389
390 20021219:
391 install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
392 alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
393 of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
394
395 The build system was modified to take advantage of
396 this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
397 use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
398 reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
399
400 20021130:
401 fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
402 If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
403 and rebuild libc:
404 make includes
405 make do-lib-libc
406 If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
407 before rebuilding the tools.
408
409 20021126:
410 The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
411 including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
412 All header files, including <sys/*.h> are copied into
413 /usr/include.
414
415 20021121:
416 The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
417 (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
418 split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
419 This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
420 new libraries are installed. The process of rebuilding
421 libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
422 required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
423 do this.
424
425 An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
426 which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
427 their global contructors/destructors will not be invoked.
428
429 20021121:
430 A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
431 corrected.
432
433 NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
434 default. However, the assembler lacked support for marking
435 objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
436 compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
437 to the assembler.
438
439 Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
440 old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
441 incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
442
443 The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
444 a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
445 against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
446 markings. ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
447 WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
448
449 The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
450 the libraries on the system. The easiest way to do this for
451 system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
452 generally available on releng.NetBSD.org. Any packages you
453 have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
454 if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
455
456 If you have questions about this matter, please contact
457 port-arm (a] NetBSD.org.
458
459 20021011:
460 Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
461 Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
462 to be rebuilt.
463
464 20021010:
465 The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
466 dependencies on attributes, as well as other options. Users
467 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
468 kernel.
469
470 20021009:
471 A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
472 which is now used by the SCSI configuration description. Users
473 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
474 kernel.
475
476 20021003:
477 Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
478 framework. Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
479 before building a new kernel.
480
481 20021001:
482 The i386mp branch has been merged. To compile a kernel, users
483 will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
484 file. Multiprocessor kernels will need
485 ioapic* at mainbus? apid ?
486 options MULTIPROCESSOR
487 options COM_MPLOCK
488
489 20020922:
490 MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
491 certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
492 linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
493 and /sbin are dynamically linked.
494 If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
495 you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
496 with:
497 make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
498
499 20020917:
500 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
501 - TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
502 there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
503 x86_64).
504 - EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
505 root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu). This
506 enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
507 platforms.
508
509 20020906:
510 gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
511 reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
512
513 20020822:
514 Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
515 are now provided in /rescue.
516
517 To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
518 what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
519 from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
520
521 20020820:
522 crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
523 is statically linked.
524
525 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
526
527 20020605:
528 smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
529
530 Add the following into /etc/group:
531
532 smmsp:*:17:
533
534 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
535
536 smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
537
538 20020515:
539 sshd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in, or sshd
540 will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivlegeSeparation=yes)
541
542 Add the following into /etc/group:
543
544 sshd:*:16:
545
546 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
547
548 sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
549
550 Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
551 the build process).
552
553 20020426:
554 NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
555
556 20020426:
557 etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for
558 configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
559 the problems identified.
560 This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
561 configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
562
563 20020320:
564 <bsd.lib.mk> needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
565 Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
566
567 20020319:
568 Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
569 on send(2) operation. Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
570 newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
571
572 20020311:
573 ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh. Beware
574 if you restart your machine from remote. Note that sshd.conf needs
575 to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
576
577 20020223:
578 Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
579 so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
580 the VAX assembly files.
581
582 20020118:
583 ntpd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in or builds
584 will break as mtree aborts early.
585
586 Add the following into /etc/group:
587
588 ntpd:*:15:
589
590 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
591
592 ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
593
594 20011207:
595 If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
596 reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
597 toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
598
599 To fix:
600
601 Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
602 Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
603
604 gnu/lib/libgcc
605 gnu/lib/libstdc++
606
607 After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
608
609 20011201:
610 In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
611 you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
612 point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
613 point is broken.
614
615 To build:
616
617 remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
618 remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
619 against the new libgcc.a)
620
621 20011128:
622 Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
623 the various "files" files. Bug fixes to config(8) are
624 required in order for this to work properly. Make sure
625 to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
626 to build a new kernel.
627
628 20011030:
629 libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
630 before building libc.
631
632 20011029:
633 The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
634 see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
635 procedure in great detail. BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
636 build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
637 manual update log.
638
639 Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
640 BUILDING document for caveats. Generally, BUILDING supersedes
641 UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
642 by the new build system.
643
644 20011028:
645 src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
646 symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
647 prevented this was corrected.
648
649 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
650 Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
651 for you.
652
653 20011006:
654 /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
655 absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
656 understand the format.
657
658 Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
659
660 20011004:
661 Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
662 is suggested before running a snapshot build
663
664 20010915:
665 The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
666 a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h. There may be stale .depend
667 files that still reference this file.
668
669 Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
670 directories.
671
672 20010803:
673 grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo. Since it
674 requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
675 building gnu/usr.bin/grep. To install new texinfo, please follow
676 the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
677
678 20010803:
679 (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
680 `fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand. To build the
681 kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain,
682 (i.e., build.sh -t) or (temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU"
683 from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
684 See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
685 [updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
686
687 20010731:
688 Bootloader update on ELF platforms. DDB in kernels from before
689 this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
690 bootloaders.
691
692 20010726:
693 Texinfo was updated to 4.0. To avoid failures when trying to
694 build the included texinfo files, do:
695
696 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
697 make MKINFO=no dependall install
698
699 20010718:
700 Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0. The way this
701 was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
702 make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
703 timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
704
705 The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
706 if you have a stale dependency.
707
708 Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
709 before starting your build.
710
711 20010628:
712 A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
713 in lint(1). If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
714 bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
715
716 20010226:
717 Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
718 will break as mtree aborts early.
719
720 To work around add by hand:
721
722 named:*:14:
723
724 to /etc/group and add:
725
726 named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
727
728 to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
729
730 Now a make build should progress.
731
732 20010219:
733 get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
734 to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
735
736 Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
737 usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
738 CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
739 usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
740 building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
741
742 20010204:
743 prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
744 particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
745 needs to be installed before make build.
746
747 20010114:
748 introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
749 bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
750 anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
751 with make build.
752
753 20010101:
754 bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
755 afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
756
757 20001230:
758 New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
759 If you get make errors,
760 (cd share/mk; make install)
761 Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
762
763 20001019:
764 The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
765 major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
766 directory.
767
768 20000929:
769 The following make directives are obsoleted.
770 MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA
771 By default, RSA is built into libcrypto. IDEA and RC5 will not be
772 built into libcrypto. By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
773 additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
774
775
776 Hints for a more successful build:
777 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
778 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
779 This will automatically build the tools in the
780 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
781 new build products from interfering with the running
782 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
783 other advice in this file.
784 Build a new kernel first:
785 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
786 expected by the new userland will be present. This
787 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
788 Use object directories:
789 This helps to keep stale object
790 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
791 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
792 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
793 same source tree for multiple machines.
794 To use object directories with build.sh:
795 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
796 To use object directories without using build.sh:
797 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
798 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
799 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
800 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
801 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
802 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
803 Build to a DESTDIR:
804 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
805 from interfering with the new build.
806 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
807 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
808 environment variable before running make build. It should be
809 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
810 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
811 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
812 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
813 (See critical utils, below.)
814 Build often:
815 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
816 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
817 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
818 this problem.
819
820 What to do if things don't work:
821 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
822 When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
823 should be done.
824 1) make includes
825 This should be done automatically by make build.
826 2) cd share/mk && make install
827 Again, automatically done by make build.
828
829 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
830 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
831 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
832 something like the following:
833 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
834 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
835 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
836 3) cd ...path/to/util...
837 make cleandir
838 rm ...all obj directories...
839 make cleandir # yes, again
840 make obj
841 make depend && make
842
843 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
844 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
845 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
846 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
847 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
848 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
849
850 ---cut here---
851 #!/bin/sh
852 . /etc/mk.conf
853
854 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
855 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
856 fi
857 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
858 echo Unable to find sources
859 exit 1
860 fi
861 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
862
863 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
864 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
865 fi
866 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
867 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
868 fi
869
870 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
871
872 ---cut here---
873
874 Critical utilities:
875 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
876 usr.bin/compile_et
877 usr.bin/make
878 usr.bin/yacc
879 usr.bin/lex
880 usr.bin/xlint
881 usr.bin/config
882
883 Other problems and possible solutions:
884 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
885 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
886 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
887 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
888 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
889 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
890
891 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
892 cd share/mk && make install
893
894 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
895 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
896
897 Symptom:
898 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
899
900 Symptom:
901 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
902
903 Symptom:
904 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
905
906 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
907 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
908 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
909 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
910 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
911
912 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
913 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
914
915 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
916 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
917
918 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
919 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
920
921 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
922 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
923
924 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
925 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
926
927 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
928 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
929