UPDATING revision 1.153 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.153 2006/12/14 02:11:52 reed 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 20061108:
20 The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
21 changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
22 does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
23 make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
24
25 20061009:
26 The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
27 available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
28
29 20060814:
30 The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
31 withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
32 kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
33 few years should cope.
34
35 20060703:
36 MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
37 if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
38 to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
39
40 20060627:
41 socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
42 For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
43 your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
44 errors will result.
45
46 20060526:
47 The kernel linker scripts for i386 and xen
48 (sys/arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript*) were changed to set the
49 load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
50 (like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
51 will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug and ld will fail
52 with an error like:
53 ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript:45 \
54 non constant expression for load base
55 You need to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile
56 and install the linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest
57 way is with a "build.sh tools" command, with any other options
58 that you use normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is
59 installed as ${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
60
61 20060131:
62 the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
63 the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,
64 you need to update ofwboot. After a full build, just copy
65 /usr/mdec/ofwboot to /, or do a rebuild of
66 src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/ofwboot and install the result to /.
67
68 20050917:
69 arch/*/conf/std.* was changed to include conf/std, which
70 contains MI options previously enabled by default.
71 If you have kernel config files which doesn't include
72 arch/*/conf/std.*, you need to edit them to include conf/std
73 to get the previous configuration.
74
75 20050830:
76 named.conf was moved from /etc/namedb to /etc.
77 postinstall(8) migrates this during interactive use.
78 Users of MKUPDATE=yes will need to manually rectify
79 this in their DESTDIR.
80
81 20050825:
82 Some data structures in sys/device.h, related to interface
83 attributes and locator names, were changed. config(1) was
84 modified to emit the new data structures.
85 Thus usr.bin/config must be updated (and run on the kernel
86 configuration file) before a new kernel can be built.
87
88 20050531:
89 genassym.sh(8) was moved to genassym(1). You need to either build
90 tools first or install the version of genassym from /usr/bin before
91 you can build a kernel again.
92
93 20050520:
94 Because a kernfs bug which xentools relies on was fixed,
95 xentools up to xentools20-2.0.3nb4 won't work with new kernel.
96
97 20050417:
98 postinstall(8) was moved from /etc to /usr/sbin and made part
99 of the "base" set, to make it easier to invoke after an
100 upgrade.
101
102 20050325:
103 pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4). Be sure
104 to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
105 configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
106 with wsconsctl. Depending on the default value for the pitch, you
107 might even not hear any more beep. Also, it is advised to attach both
108 devices the same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the
109 pcppi(4) device may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
110
111 20050211:
112 Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
113 some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
114 cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
115 different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
116 make a build continue.
117
118 20050109:
119 Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
120 /etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
121 for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
122 a password).
123
124 20041229:
125 Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
126 being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
127 you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
128 the build.
129
130 20041201:
131 Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
132 /dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
133 MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
134
135 20041006:
136
137 A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
138 variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
139 will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
140 on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
141
142 ident /bin/sh | grep var
143
144 Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
145 before attempting a build.
146
147 20041001:
148 The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
149 dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
150 dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
151 before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
152 ftp-proxy are the victims).
153
154 20040715:
155 The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
156 if sendmail should be started at boot time. It checks the
157 contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
158 owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
159 to the mail infrastructure have been made. If no changes
160 are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
161
162 Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
163
164 If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
165 local delivery, it is important that you also update your
166 sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
167 loopback interface.
168
169 20040715:
170 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
171 kernel builds has been changed again. The latest version
172 of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
173
174 20040621:
175 Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
176 from a clean objdir under tools/*.
177
178 This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
179 to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
180
181 The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
182
183 20040516:
184 The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
185 from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<dir> to /etc/X11/<dir>.
186 Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
187 "make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
188
189 postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
190 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
191 detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
192 manually move these files yourself.
193
194 20040426:
195 Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
196 been removed in favor of the newer layout. This affects
197 consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
198 the dynamic discovery mechanism. This is believed only to
199 be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
200 the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
201 built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
202 will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
203 2004/04/25. If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
204 does not work, make sure that your revision of
205 src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
206 do the following:
207
208 cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
209 make USETOOLS=no includes
210 cd lib/libc
211 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
212 cd ../../sbin/sysctl
213 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
214
215 If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
216 identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
217 "unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that. if that happens,
218 make sure to follow the above steps.
219
220 20040425:
221 The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
222 are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
223 sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
224 invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
225 automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances,
226 affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
227 upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
228 encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
229 filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
230 possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
231
232 20040418:
233 statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
234 installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
235 a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
236 build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
237 clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
238 anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
239 from the libc build directory.
240
241 20040326:
242 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
243 has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
244 and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
245 to build it.
246
247 This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
248 building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
249
250 20040318:
251 A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
252 provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
253 notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
254 ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
255 recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
256 (recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
257
258 20040313:
259 On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
260 the old wsqms driver is now called qms. Kernel config files
261 will need updating. See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
262 for examples.
263
264 20040125:
265 On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
266 needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
267 files.
268
269 20040109:
270 Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
271 added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
272 when using those layouts. If you have been using -current
273 since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
274 superblock mismatches. To repair, make sure you have
275 an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
276 to complete the filesystem upgrade. A message has
277 been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
278 See the following discussion for more information:
279 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
280
281 20031203:
282 New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
283 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
284 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
285
286 20031111:
287 A newer mkdep is needed. Error noting that is
288 cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
289
290 20031008:
291 /usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
292 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
293 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
294
295 20031007:
296 A sign extension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
297 of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags. This should only
298 affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
299 A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
300 should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
301 to the kernel which should discover and warn about it. See
302 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
303
304 20030906:
305 With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
306 code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
307 kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
308
309 20030801:
310 With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
311 rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
312 /usr/lib/libdes* before building.
313
314 20030703:
315 Texinfo was updated to 4.6. To avoid failures when trying to
316 build the included texinfo files, do:
317
318 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
319 make MKINFO=no dependall install
320
321 20030630:
322 Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
323 cd share/mk && make install
324 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
325 make MKMAN=no dependall install
326 (untested).
327
328 20030516:
329 Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
330 were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
331 mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
332 been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
333 export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
334 make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
335 file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
336 a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
337
338 20030402:
339 The superblock layout for FFS was changed. If you have 1.6
340 fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
341 with the first alternate, because they compare too many
342 fields (even ones that aren't useful). If possible, upgrade
343 your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
344 None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
345
346 20030324:
347 sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported. Since sendmail is
348 now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
349 mode for most common activities, there is a new config
350 file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
351 The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
352 is named netbsd-msp.cf. Upgrading your regular sendmail
353 configuration file is also strongly advised.
354
355 See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
356 the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
357 information.
358
359 20030117:
360 Texinfo was updated to 4.3. To avoid failures when trying to
361 build the included texinfo files, do:
362
363 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
364 make MKINFO=no dependall install
365
366 20021223:
367 The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
368 "${DESTDIR}" from path names.
369 This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
370 For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
371 update tools/mtree, before running make build.
372
373 20021219:
374 CVS repository layout was changed. See the following for details
375 if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
376
377 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
378
379 20021219:
380 install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
381 alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
382 of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
383
384 The build system was modified to take advantage of
385 this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
386 use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
387 reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
388
389 20021130:
390 fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
391 If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
392 and rebuild libc:
393 make includes
394 make do-lib-libc
395 If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
396 before rebuilding the tools.
397
398 20021126:
399 The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
400 including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
401 All header files, including <sys/*.h> are copied into
402 /usr/include.
403
404 20021121:
405 The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
406 (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
407 split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
408 This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
409 new libraries are installed. The process of rebuilding
410 libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
411 required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
412 do this.
413
414 An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
415 which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
416 their global constructors/destructors will not be invoked.
417
418 20021121:
419 A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
420 corrected.
421
422 NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
423 default. However, the assembler lacked support for marking
424 objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
425 compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
426 to the assembler.
427
428 Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
429 old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
430 incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
431
432 The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
433 a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
434 against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
435 markings. ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
436 WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
437
438 The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
439 the libraries on the system. The easiest way to do this for
440 system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
441 generally available on releng.NetBSD.org. Any packages you
442 have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
443 if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
444
445 If you have questions about this matter, please contact
446 port-arm (a] NetBSD.org.
447
448 20021011:
449 Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
450 Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
451 to be rebuilt.
452
453 20021010:
454 The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
455 dependencies on attributes, as well as other options. Users
456 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
457 kernel.
458
459 20021009:
460 A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
461 which is now used by the SCSI configuration description. Users
462 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
463 kernel.
464
465 20021003:
466 Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
467 framework. Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
468 before building a new kernel.
469
470 20021001:
471 The i386mp branch has been merged. To compile a kernel, users
472 will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
473 file. Multiprocessor kernels will need
474 ioapic* at mainbus? apid ?
475 options MULTIPROCESSOR
476 options COM_MPLOCK
477
478 20020922:
479 MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
480 certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
481 linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
482 and /sbin are dynamically linked.
483 If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
484 you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
485 with:
486 make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
487
488 20020917:
489 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
490 - TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
491 there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
492 x86_64).
493 - EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
494 root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu). This
495 enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
496 platforms.
497
498 20020906:
499 gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
500 reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
501
502 20020822:
503 Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
504 are now provided in /rescue.
505
506 To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
507 what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
508 from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
509
510 20020820:
511 crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
512 is statically linked.
513
514 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
515
516 20020605:
517 smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
518
519 Add the following into /etc/group:
520
521 smmsp:*:17:
522
523 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
524
525 smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
526
527 20020515:
528 sshd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in, or sshd
529 will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivilegeSeparation=yes)
530
531 Add the following into /etc/group:
532
533 sshd:*:16:
534
535 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
536
537 sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
538
539 Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
540 the build process).
541
542 20020426:
543 NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
544
545 20020426:
546 etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for
547 configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
548 the problems identified.
549 This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
550 configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
551
552 20020320:
553 <bsd.lib.mk> needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
554 Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
555
556 20020319:
557 Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
558 on send(2) operation. Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
559 newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
560
561 20020311:
562 ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh. Beware
563 if you restart your machine from remote. Note that sshd.conf needs
564 to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
565
566 20020223:
567 Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
568 so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
569 the VAX assembly files.
570
571 20020118:
572 ntpd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in or builds
573 will break as mtree aborts early.
574
575 Add the following into /etc/group:
576
577 ntpd:*:15:
578
579 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
580
581 ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
582
583 20011207:
584 If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
585 reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
586 toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
587
588 To fix:
589
590 Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
591 Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
592
593 gnu/lib/libgcc
594 gnu/lib/libstdc++
595
596 After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
597
598 20011201:
599 In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
600 you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
601 point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
602 point is broken.
603
604 To build:
605
606 remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
607 remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
608 against the new libgcc.a)
609
610 20011128:
611 Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
612 the various "files" files. Bug fixes to config(8) are
613 required in order for this to work properly. Make sure
614 to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
615 to build a new kernel.
616
617 20011030:
618 libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
619 before building libc.
620
621 20011029:
622 The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
623 see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
624 procedure in great detail. BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
625 build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
626 manual update log.
627
628 Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
629 BUILDING document for caveats. Generally, BUILDING supersedes
630 UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
631 by the new build system.
632
633 20011028:
634 src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
635 symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
636 prevented this was corrected.
637
638 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
639 Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
640 for you.
641
642 20011006:
643 /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
644 absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
645 understand the format.
646
647 Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
648
649 20011004:
650 Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
651 is suggested before running a snapshot build
652
653 20010915:
654 The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
655 a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h. There may be stale .depend
656 files that still reference this file.
657
658 Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
659 directories.
660
661 20010803:
662 grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo. Since it
663 requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
664 building gnu/usr.bin/grep. To install new texinfo, please follow
665 the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
666
667 20010803:
668 (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
669 `fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand. To build the
670 kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain,
671 (i.e., build.sh -t) or (temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU"
672 from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
673 See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
674 [updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
675
676 20010731:
677 Bootloader update on ELF platforms. DDB in kernels from before
678 this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
679 bootloaders.
680
681 20010726:
682 Texinfo was updated to 4.0. To avoid failures when trying to
683 build the included texinfo files, do:
684
685 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
686 make MKINFO=no dependall install
687
688 20010718:
689 Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0. The way this
690 was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
691 make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
692 timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
693
694 The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
695 if you have a stale dependency.
696
697 Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
698 before starting your build.
699
700 20010628:
701 A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
702 in lint(1). If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
703 bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
704
705 20010226:
706 Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
707 will break as mtree aborts early.
708
709 To work around add by hand:
710
711 named:*:14:
712
713 to /etc/group and add:
714
715 named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
716
717 to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
718
719 Now a make build should progress.
720
721 20010219:
722 get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
723 to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
724
725 Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
726 usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
727 CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
728 usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
729 building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
730
731 20010204:
732 prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
733 particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
734 needs to be installed before make build.
735
736 20010114:
737 introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
738 bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
739 anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
740 with make build.
741
742 20010101:
743 bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
744 afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
745
746 20001230:
747 New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
748 If you get make errors,
749 (cd share/mk; make install)
750 Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
751
752 20001019:
753 The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
754 major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
755 directory.
756
757 20000929:
758 The following make directives are obsoleted.
759 MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA
760 By default, RSA is built into libcrypto. IDEA and RC5 will not be
761 built into libcrypto. By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
762 additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
763
764
765 Hints for a more successful build:
766 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
767 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
768 This will automatically build the tools in the
769 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
770 new build products from interfering with the running
771 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
772 other advice in this file.
773 Build a new kernel first:
774 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
775 expected by the new userland will be present. This
776 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
777 Use object directories:
778 This helps to keep stale object
779 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
780 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
781 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
782 same source tree for multiple machines.
783 To use object directories with build.sh:
784 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
785 To use object directories without using build.sh:
786 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
787 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
788 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
789 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
790 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
791 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
792 Build to a DESTDIR:
793 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
794 from interfering with the new build.
795 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
796 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
797 environment variable before running make build. It should be
798 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
799 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
800 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
801 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
802 (See critical utils, below.)
803 Build often:
804 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
805 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
806 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
807 this problem.
808
809 What to do if things don't work:
810 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
811 When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
812 should be done.
813 1) make includes
814 This should be done automatically by make build.
815 2) cd share/mk && make install
816 Again, automatically done by make build.
817
818 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
819 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
820 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
821 something like the following:
822 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
823 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
824 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
825 3) cd ...path/to/util...
826 make cleandir
827 rm ...all obj directories...
828 make cleandir # yes, again
829 make obj
830 make depend && make
831
832 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
833 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
834 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
835 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
836 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
837 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
838
839 ---cut here---
840 #!/bin/sh
841 . /etc/mk.conf
842
843 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
844 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
845 fi
846 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
847 echo Unable to find sources
848 exit 1
849 fi
850 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
851
852 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
853 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
854 fi
855 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
856 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
857 fi
858
859 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
860
861 ---cut here---
862
863 Critical utilities:
864 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
865 usr.bin/compile_et
866 usr.bin/make
867 usr.bin/yacc
868 usr.bin/lex
869 usr.bin/xlint
870 usr.bin/config
871
872 Other problems and possible solutions:
873 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
874 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
875 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
876 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
877 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
878 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
879
880 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
881 cd share/mk && make install
882
883 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
884 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
885
886 Symptom:
887 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
888
889 Symptom:
890 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
891
892 Symptom:
893 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
894
895 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
896 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
897 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
898 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
899 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
900
901 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
902 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
903
904 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
905 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
906
907 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
908 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
909
910 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
911 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
912
913 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
914 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
915
916 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
917 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
918