UPDATING revision 1.160 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.160 2007/04/12 13:17:56 jmcneill 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 20070412:
20 The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
21 instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
22 example.
23
24 20070319:
25 src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
26 on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
27 updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
28 cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
29 rebuild of object files that might have been built
30 incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
31 src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
32
33 20070210:
34 src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
35 find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
36 | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
37 will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
38
39 20070209:
40 The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
41 was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
42 kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
43 library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
44 an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
45 (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
46 the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
47 continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
48 is the only threaded application in the base system.
49
50 20061214:
51 Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
52 from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
53 will need to do a "make cleandir" in
54 tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
55 bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
56 usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
57 as the installation images in distrib/
58 in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
59 file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
60
61 20061108:
62 The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
63 changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
64 does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
65 make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
66
67 20061009:
68 The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
69 available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
70
71 20060814:
72 The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
73 withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
74 kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
75 few years should cope.
76
77 20060703:
78 MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
79 if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
80 to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
81
82 20060627:
83 socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
84 For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
85 your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
86 errors will result.
87
88 20060526:
89 The kernel linker scripts for i386 and xen
90 (sys/arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript*) were changed to set the
91 load address correctly, for the benefit of MULTIBOOT boot loaders
92 (like Grub). If you use a linker (ld) older than from 2006/04/17, it
93 will be unable to link the kernel because of a bug and ld will fail
94 with an error like:
95 ../../../../arch/i386/conf/kern.ldscript:45 \
96 non constant expression for load base
97 You need to update at least src/gnu/dist/binutils/ld and recompile
98 and install the linker. If using the build.sh script, the easiest
99 way is with a "build.sh tools" command, with any other options
100 that you use normally. When using build.sh, the linker binary is
101 installed as ${TOOLDIR}/bin/i386--netbsdelf-ld.
102
103 20060131:
104 the protocol between the sparc64 bootloader (ofwboot) and
105 the kernel was changed. Before installing a new kernel,
106 you need to update ofwboot. After a full build, just copy
107 /usr/mdec/ofwboot to /, or do a rebuild of
108 src/sys/arch/sparc/stand/ofwboot and install the result to /.
109
110 20050917:
111 arch/*/conf/std.* was changed to include conf/std, which
112 contains MI options previously enabled by default.
113 If you have kernel config files which doesn't include
114 arch/*/conf/std.*, you need to edit them to include conf/std
115 to get the previous configuration.
116
117 20050830:
118 named.conf was moved from /etc/namedb to /etc.
119 postinstall(8) migrates this during interactive use.
120 Users of MKUPDATE=yes will need to manually rectify
121 this in their DESTDIR.
122
123 20050825:
124 Some data structures in sys/device.h, related to interface
125 attributes and locator names, were changed. config(1) was
126 modified to emit the new data structures.
127 Thus usr.bin/config must be updated (and run on the kernel
128 configuration file) before a new kernel can be built.
129
130 20050531:
131 genassym.sh(8) was moved to genassym(1). You need to either build
132 tools first or install the version of genassym from /usr/bin before
133 you can build a kernel again.
134
135 20050520:
136 Because a kernfs bug which xentools relies on was fixed,
137 xentools up to xentools20-2.0.3nb4 won't work with new kernel.
138
139 20050417:
140 postinstall(8) was moved from /etc to /usr/sbin and made part
141 of the "base" set, to make it easier to invoke after an
142 upgrade.
143
144 20050325:
145 pcppi(4) was separated in two devices, adding attimer(4). Be sure
146 to add a config line for an attimer(4) device in your kernel
147 configuration, or you won't be able to set the pitch of the beep
148 with wsconsctl. Depending on the default value for the pitch, you
149 might even not hear any more beep. Also, it is advised to attach both
150 devices the same way (i.e., both on isa or both on acpi) or the
151 pcppi(4) device may fail to find the attimer(4) one.
152
153 20050211:
154 Fixes to tools/Makefile.gnuhost may cause UPDATE=1 builds in
155 some of the cross tools to fail if they use configure. Some configure's
156 cache the environment passed in and notice the new environment is
157 different and abort. Doing a clean in tools/ should be enough to
158 make a build continue.
159
160 20050109:
161 Since su is using pam by default now, make sure that you have
162 /etc/pam.d populated (postinstall will do that automatically
163 for you). Otherwise su will fail open (i.e. will not require
164 a password).
165
166 20041229:
167 Make had a path resolution bug that manifested itself as not
168 being able to install openpam.3. This bug has been fixed, but
169 you might need to rebuild make manually first to get through
170 the build.
171
172 20041201:
173 Userland programs have been changed to use /dev/bpf instead of
174 /dev/bpfX. You need to create that device by installing a new
175 MAKEDEV and running it, or mv /dev/bpf0 /dev/bpf && rm /dev/bpf[0-9]*
176
177 20041006:
178
179 A bug was introduced into /bin/sh (var.c rev 1.35) which causes
180 variables to not export correctly to subshells in all cases. This
181 will cause builds to break if that version of /bin/sh is installed
182 on the system. The proper version of /bin/sh can be verified with:
183
184 ident /bin/sh | grep var
185
186 Any /bin/sh w. version 1.35 will not work and needs to be updated
187 before attempting a build.
188
189 20041001:
190 The ipfilter kernel sources moved from sys/netinet to
191 dist/sys/ipf/netinet. Due to the move some Makefile
192 dependencies are now dangling requiring a make cleandir
193 before they work again (kdump, ktruss, rescue, ipf, and
194 ftp-proxy are the victims).
195
196 20040715:
197 The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine
198 if sendmail should be started at boot time. It checks the
199 contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the
200 owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes
201 to the mail infrastructure have been made. If no changes
202 are detected, it will start an SMTP listener.
203
204 Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this.
205
206 If you are only using sendmail by default and only for
207 local delivery, it is important that you also update your
208 sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the
209 loopback interface.
210
211 20040715:
212 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386
213 kernel builds has been changed again. The latest version
214 of bsd.files.mk is no longer required.
215
216 20040621:
217 Due to the recent rototill of tools/compat it's crucial one starts
218 from a clean objdir under tools/*.
219
220 This is mostly due to generated files (yacc and lex sources) needing
221 to be generated with new rules from bsd.hostprog.mk.
222
223 The safest course is to rm -rf all objects under tools before building.
224
225 20040516:
226 The end-user modifiable X11 configuration has been moved
227 from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/<dir> to /etc/X11/<dir>.
228 Ensure that src and xsrc is up to date, and run
229 "make cleandir" in src/x11 before your next build.
230
231 postinstall currently doesn't migrate the files from
232 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/* to /etc/X11/* although it does
233 detect that this needs to occur, so you'll have to
234 manually move these files yourself.
235
236 20040426:
237 Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has
238 been removed in favor of the newer layout. This affects
239 consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as
240 the dynamic discovery mechanism. This is believed only to
241 be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so
242 the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary
243 built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24
244 will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after
245 2004/04/25. If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh
246 does not work, make sure that your revision of
247 src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the
248 do the following:
249
250 cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is)
251 make USETOOLS=no includes
252 cd lib/libc
253 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
254 cd ../../sbin/sysctl
255 make USETOOLS=no dependall install
256
257 If you are using older sysctl binary, GNU autoconf would fail to
258 identify your machine architecture, and tries to build binary for
259 "unknown-unknown-netbsd20F" or something like that. if that happens,
260 make sure to follow the above steps.
261
262 20040425:
263 The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402
264 are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by
265 sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4
266 invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now
267 automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances,
268 affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before
269 upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may
270 encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected
271 filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as
272 possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138.
273
274 20040418:
275 statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before
276 installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running
277 a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc
278 build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make
279 clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about
280 anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects
281 from the libc build directory.
282
283 20040326:
284 The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds
285 has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS
286 and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk
287 to build it.
288
289 This means you must have the latest bsd.files.mk installed when
290 building a kernel without USETOOLS=yes.
291
292 20040318:
293 A bug in the cgd(4) blowfish code was corrected, without
294 provision of backwards compatibility, after several public
295 notices over several months. Users of cgd with blowfish cipher
296 ONLY must dump their data before updating their kernels, and
297 recreate cgd's and restore data using the new kernel. See
298 (recent message to current-users, URL when mail-index has updated)
299
300 20040313:
301 On acorn32, the opms and qms drivers have been withdrawn, and
302 the old wsqms driver is now called qms. Kernel config files
303 will need updating. See the ones in sys/arch/acorn32/conf
304 for examples.
305
306 20040125:
307 On acorn32, the beep and sysbeep devices are no longer
308 needed, and will need to be deleted from kernel configuration
309 files.
310
311 20040109:
312 Compatibility for old ffs superblock layouts has been
313 added, and the restrictive fsck checks have been reenabled
314 when using those layouts. If you have been using -current
315 since 20030402, you may find that fsck again signals fatal
316 superblock mismatches. To repair, make sure you have
317 an updated fsck_ffs and then you can use fsck_ffs -b 16 -c 4
318 to complete the filesystem upgrade. A message has
319 been added to the kernel which should detect this problem.
320 See the following discussion for more information:
321 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/current-users/2004/01/11/0022.html
322
323 20031203:
324 New binutils builds may fail due to old dependencies.
325 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
326 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
327
328 20031111:
329 A newer mkdep is needed. Error noting that is
330 cc: Ambiguous abbreviation --
331
332 20031008:
333 /usr/include/sys/disklabel_mbr.h was removed.
334 It's necessary to "make cleandir" to ensure that
335 the dependencies will be rebuilt correctly.
336
337 20031007:
338 A sign extension bug was fixed which set all the high bits
339 of our newly expanded ffs fs_flags. This should only
340 affect users who installed or upgraded in September of 2003.
341 A small utility program was posted to tech-kern which
342 should fix this problem, and a warning message was added
343 to the kernel which should discover and warn about it. See
344 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/tech-kern/2003/10/07/0005.html
345
346 20030906:
347 With the addition of siginfo support the old signal trampoline
348 code has been deprecated to COMPAT_16. Make sure that your running
349 kernel has COMPAT_16 enabled before building userland.
350
351 20030801:
352 With the new openssl, there is some header and library shuffling.
353 rm -f /usr/include/des.h /usr/include/kerberosIV/* /lib/libdes* \
354 /usr/lib/libdes* before building.
355
356 20030703:
357 Texinfo was updated to 4.6. To avoid failures when trying to
358 build the included texinfo files, do:
359
360 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
361 make MKINFO=no dependall install
362
363 20030630:
364 Groff was updated to 1.19; it's probably necessary to do
365 cd share/mk && make install
366 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/groff
367 make MKMAN=no dependall install
368 (untested).
369
370 20030516:
371 Due to bugs in the export handling code, invalid export lines
372 were accepted before and caused the kernel to panic when
373 mountd got restarted because it freed memory that had already
374 been freed. This has been fixed and the kernel checks
375 export addresses very strictly. If you upgrade your kernel,
376 make sure you also upgrade mountd, because if your export
377 file contains lines with an old inet4 address syntax (i.e.
378 a.b.c or a.b or a), they will get rejected by the new kernel.
379
380 20030402:
381 The superblock layout for FFS was changed. If you have 1.6
382 fsck binaries, they will signal a fatal superblock mismatch
383 with the first alternate, because they compare too many
384 fields (even ones that aren't useful). If possible, upgrade
385 your fsck_ffs binary before using a new kernel.
386 None of this signals actual filesystem damage.
387
388 20030324:
389 sendmail version 8.12.8 was imported. Since sendmail is
390 now setgid to the smmsp group, and runs in "collection"
391 mode for most common activities, there is a new config
392 file called submit.cf that needs to live in /etc/mail.
393 The generic submit.cf sample in /usr/share/sendmail/cf
394 is named netbsd-msp.cf. Upgrading your regular sendmail
395 configuration file is also strongly advised.
396
397 See the section named "MESSAGE SUBMISSION PROGRAM" in
398 the updated /usr/share/sendmail/README file for more
399 information.
400
401 20030117:
402 Texinfo was updated to 4.3. To avoid failures when trying to
403 build the included texinfo files, do:
404
405 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
406 make MKINFO=no dependall install
407
408 20021223:
409 The METALOG format changed slightly, to remove the leading
410 "${DESTDIR}" from path names.
411 This only affects people building with UNPRIVED.
412 For complete safety, remove the DESTDIR entirely and
413 update tools/mtree, before running make build.
414
415 20021219:
416 CVS repository layout was changed. See the following for details
417 if you are using (anonymous) cvs to update your tree.
418
419 http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-announce/2002/12/19/0000.html
420
421 20021219:
422 install(1) had a '-N dbdir' option added, to specify an
423 alternate location to look up users & groups (instead
424 of the host system passwd(5) and group(5) databases).
425
426 The build system was modified to take advantage of
427 this option (using ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/etc), so if you
428 use USETOOLS==no, you may have to rebuild and
429 reinstall usr.bin/xinstall first.
430
431 20021130:
432 fparseln(3) moved from libutil to libc.
433 If building to DESTDIR=/, reinstall the includes
434 and rebuild libc:
435 make includes
436 make do-lib-libc
437 If using build.sh, "cd tools/compat && make clean"
438 before rebuilding the tools.
439
440 20021126:
441 The mk.conf(5) variable SYS_INCLUDE has been deprecated,
442 including the optional "SYS_INCLUDE=symlinks" support.
443 All header files, including <sys/*.h> are copied into
444 /usr/include.
445
446 20021121:
447 The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o
448 (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were
449 split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting.
450 This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the
451 new libraries are installed. The process of rebuilding
452 libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new
453 required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to
454 do this.
455
456 An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries
457 which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that
458 their global constructors/destructors will not be invoked.
459
460 20021121:
461 A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been
462 corrected.
463
464 NetBSD ARM ELF uses the soft-VFP floating point model by
465 default. However, the assembler lacked support for marking
466 objects as using the VFP floating point format, and the
467 compiler was not properly passing the flag indicating "soft-VFP"
468 to the assembler.
469
470 Unfortunately, this means that the linker will now consider
471 old (i.e. not marked "softvfp") NetBSD ARM ELF objects to be
472 incompatible with new (properly marked) objects.
473
474 The problem will only manifest itself if you attempt to compile
475 a new program using the fixed toolchain, and link that program
476 against old libraries which do not have the proper "softvfp"
477 markings. ALL OF YOUR EXISTING BINARIES AND SHARED LIBRARIES
478 WILL CONTINUE TO WORK PROPERLY.
479
480 The only work-around for the problem is to recompile all of
481 the libraries on the system. The easiest way to do this for
482 system libraries is to install a binary snapshot; they are
483 generally available on releng.NetBSD.org. Any packages you
484 have installed which supply libraries will have to be recompiled
485 if you wish to link new programs against those libraries.
486
487 If you have questions about this matter, please contact
488 port-arm (a] NetBSD.org.
489
490 20021011:
491 Systrace has been improved to support privilege elevation.
492 Updating the kernel requires the userland part of systrace
493 to be rebuilt.
494
495 20021010:
496 The config(8) grammar was changed to allow options to register
497 dependencies on attributes, as well as other options. Users
498 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
499 kernel.
500
501 20021009:
502 A new attribute dependency syntax was introduced to config(8),
503 which is now used by the SCSI configuration description. Users
504 must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config before building a new
505 kernel.
506
507 20021003:
508 Several changes have been made to the autoconfiguration
509 framework. Users must update and reinstall usr.sbin/config
510 before building a new kernel.
511
512 20021001:
513 The i386mp branch has been merged. To compile a kernel, users
514 will need to add the option 'cpu* at mainbus?' to their configuration
515 file. Multiprocessor kernels will need
516 ioapic* at mainbus? apid ?
517 options MULTIPROCESSOR
518 options COM_MPLOCK
519
520 20020922:
521 MKDYNAMICROOT=yes enabled by default, which means that
522 certain shared libraries are installed into /lib, the shared
523 linker is installed into /libexec, and all programs in /bin
524 and /sbin are dynamically linked.
525 If you do not use "make build", you should ensure that
526 you have the libraries and shared linker in the new locations,
527 with:
528 make do-lib-csu do-lib-libc do-lib do-gnu-lib do-ld.elf_so
529
530 20020917:
531 USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN has been replaced with:
532 - TOOLCHAIN_MISSING -- set to "yes" on platforms for which
533 there is no working in-tree toolchain (hppa, ns32k, sh5,
534 x86_64).
535 - EXTERNAL_TOOLCHAIN -- if defined by the user, points to the
536 root of an external toolchain (e.g. /usr/local/gnu). This
537 enables the cross-build framework even for TOOLCHAIN_MISSING
538 platforms.
539
540 20020906:
541 gehenna-devsw has been merged into the trunk. Need to update and
542 reinstall usr.sbin/config before building the kernel.
543
544 20020822:
545 Crunched rescue tools (contents of /bin and /sbin, plus others)
546 are now provided in /rescue.
547
548 To ensure that these are built statically linked (no matter
549 what the setting of LDSTATIC is), use a crunchgen(1) built
550 from sources newer than 20020820 (see the next entry).
551
552 20020820:
553 crunchgen(1) changed to ensure that the generated program
554 is statically linked.
555
556 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/crunch
557
558 20020605:
559 smmsp user/group has been added for sendmail.
560
561 Add the following into /etc/group:
562
563 smmsp:*:17:
564
565 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
566
567 smmsp:*:17:17::0:0:Sendmail Message Submission Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
568
569 20020515:
570 sshd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in, or sshd
571 will not let you log in (with default, or UsePrivilegeSeparation=yes)
572
573 Add the following into /etc/group:
574
575 sshd:*:16:
576
577 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
578
579 sshd:*:16:16::0:0:& pseudo-user:/var/chroot/sshd:/sbin/nologin
580
581 Also /var/chroot/sshd directory needs to be present (digged as part of
582 the build process).
583
584 20020426:
585 NBUILDJOBS obsoleted in favor of just using -j.
586
587 20020426:
588 etc/postinstall added, which performs various checks for
589 configuration file updates and changes, and can fix most of
590 the problems identified.
591 This should make it much easier to upgrade a system's
592 configuration from earlier systems (as far back as NetBSD 1.5).
593
594 20020320:
595 <bsd.lib.mk> needs a new install(1) for its "-a cmd" support.
596 Build and install at usr.bin/xinstall before the build.
597
598 20020319:
599 Raw IPv6 socket now makes strict checking for sa_family and sa_len
600 on send(2) operation. Be sure to have sbin/rtsol and usr.sbin/rtsold
601 newer than November 2001 when you upgrade the kernel.
602
603 20020311:
604 ssh configuration files were moved from /etc to /etc/ssh. Beware
605 if you restart your machine from remote. Note that sshd.conf needs
606 to be changed (due to the use of "/etc" inside).
607
608 20020223:
609 Users of the VAX port will need to rebuild and install gas
610 so it deal with the now present register prefix used in all
611 the VAX assembly files.
612
613 20020118:
614 ntpd user/group has been added. Need to hand add this in or builds
615 will break as mtree aborts early.
616
617 Add the following into /etc/group:
618
619 ntpd:*:15:
620
621 and the following to /etc/master.passwd (via vipw):
622
623 ntpd:*:15:15::0:0:Ntpd pseudo-user:/var/chroot/ntpd:/sbin/nologin
624
625 20011207:
626 If you're attempting to build a snapshot on sparc64 and are getting
627 reloc errors from the toolchain groff binary this means your native
628 toolchain has some broken C++ bits.
629
630 To fix:
631
632 Build a new toolchain (i.e. build.sh -t)
633 Use the new toolchain to build and install natively (i.e. /usr/lib)
634
635 gnu/lib/libgcc
636 gnu/lib/libstdc++
637
638 After this a snapshot will be able to be built.
639
640 20011201:
641 In order for a sparc64 build to work you must have a working awk. If
642 you've built and installed a system with the new toolchain up to this
643 point you do not have a working awk as its ability to do floating
644 point is broken.
645
646 To build:
647
648 remake and install gnu/lib/libgcc
649 remake and install gnu/usr.bin/gawk into /usr/bin (make sure it links
650 against the new libgcc.a)
651
652 20011128:
653 Kernel config information was changed to use defflag in
654 the various "files" files. Bug fixes to config(8) are
655 required in order for this to work properly. Make sure
656 to build and install in usr.sbin/config before attempting
657 to build a new kernel.
658
659 20011030:
660 libc/locale/wcstod.c now needs new lint(1). Update lint(1)
661 before building libc.
662
663 20011029:
664 The new document BUILDING.mdoc (view with nroff | more, or
665 see pre-generated .txt and .html versions) describes the build
666 procedure in great detail. BUILDING, and the USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN
667 build process, are intended in the long run to replace this
668 manual update log.
669
670 Users building a USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN system should read the
671 BUILDING document for caveats. Generally, BUILDING supersedes
672 UPDATING for these systems, as tool updating is taken care of
673 by the new build system.
674
675 20011028:
676 src/etc/Makefile now needs install to be able to handle
677 symlinks that point to nowhere. A bug in install that
678 prevented this was corrected.
679
680 Solution: update and reinstall usr.bin/xinstall
681 Better Solution: Use the new toolchain and it will just work
682 for you.
683
684 20011006:
685 /etc/mtree/NetBSD.dist has been updated to take advantage of
686 absolute path support added to mtree(8). Older mtree(8)s don't
687 understand the format.
688
689 Solution: update and reinstall usr.sbin/mtree
690
691 20011004:
692 Crunchgen has been updated to work via reach-over makefiles. Updating
693 is suggested before running a snapshot build
694
695 20010915:
696 The new "ubcperf" code committed by Chuck Silvers removed
697 a header file, uvm/uvm_vnode.h. There may be stale .depend
698 files that still reference this file.
699
700 Solution: "make cleandir && make dependall" in affected
701 directories.
702
703 20010803:
704 grep.info is now built from grep.texi using makeinfo. Since it
705 requires makeinfo v4.0, you need to install new texinfo before
706 building gnu/usr.bin/grep. To install new texinfo, please follow
707 the instruction described in 20010726 entry.
708
709 20010803:
710 (i386 only): i386 kernel now uses new instructions like
711 `fxsave' which old gas doesn't understand. To build the
712 kernel successfully, you need to build and install a new toolchain,
713 (i.e., build.sh -t) or (temporarily) comment out "options I686_CPU"
714 from your kernel configuration until you rebuild your userland.
715 See 20011029 above and BUILDING file in this directory for more information.
716 [updated 20020630 since i386 gas moved when USE_NEW_TOOLCHAIN enabled]
717
718 20010731:
719 Bootloader update on ELF platforms. DDB in kernels from before
720 this will be unable to read symbol tables provided by newer
721 bootloaders.
722
723 20010726:
724 Texinfo was updated to 4.0. To avoid failures when trying to
725 build the included texinfo files, do:
726
727 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo
728 make MKINFO=no dependall install
729
730 20010718:
731 Enabled correct .init/.fini processing in crt0. The way this
732 was done was to change a -I directive to cc(1), which means
733 make(1) will have a stale dependency (it will be checking the
734 timestamp on the wrong "dot_init.h").
735
736 The symptom you will see is that new programs die with SIGSEGV
737 if you have a stale dependency.
738
739 Solution: "make cleandir" in both lib/csu and libexec/ld.elf_so
740 before starting your build.
741
742 20010628:
743 A construct was added to uvm_page.h that uncovered a bug
744 in lint(1). If you get a warning/error about a non-portable
745 bitfield, update your lint(1) before proceeding.
746
747 20010226:
748 Added named user/group to system. Need to hand add this in or builds
749 will break as mtree aborts early.
750
751 To work around add by hand:
752
753 named:*:14:
754
755 to /etc/group and add:
756
757 named:*:14:14::0:0:Named pseudo-user:/var/named:/sbin/nologin
758
759 to master.passwd (use vipw for instance if doing by hand).
760
761 Now a make build should progress.
762
763 20010219:
764 get/setprogname() added. Any hostprogs that may use this will need
765 to be bootstrapped manually until the host system is current.
766
767 Known problems: sys/arch/macppc/stand/fixcoff
768 usr.sbin/config (adding -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP to
769 CFLAGS and rebuilding should work)
770 usr.sbin/mdsetimage - Build a static copy if
771 building a snapshot before fully bootstrapped.
772
773 20010204:
774 prepare the code to compile with stricter gcc flags. in
775 particular start eliminating redundant declarations. Yacc
776 needs to be installed before make build.
777
778 20010114:
779 introduce .if commands(target) in make(1). You need to
780 bring everything up-to-date first, then without installing
781 anything make and install in usr.bin/make, then proceed
782 with make build.
783
784 20010101:
785 bsd.subdir.mk committed 20001230 had a bug which caused
786 afterinstall targets to run too soon; update again.
787
788 20001230:
789 New share/mk files needed to support .WAIT in SUBDIR variables.
790 If you get make errors,
791 (cd share/mk; make install)
792 Also, PRINTOBJDIR has changed and is now used more heavily.
793
794 20001019:
795 The `ca' device driver has been replaced by `ld'; although the
796 major and minor numbers haven't changed, you should update your /dev
797 directory.
798
799 20000929:
800 The following make directives are obsoleted.
801 MKCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RSA NOCRYPTO_RC5 NOCRYPTO_IDEA
802 By default, RSA is built into libcrypto. IDEA and RC5 will not be
803 built into libcrypto. By using MKCRYPTO_{RC5,IDEA}, you can build
804 additional library libcrypto_{idea,rc5}.
805
806
807 Hints for a more successful build:
808 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
809 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
810 This will automatically build the tools in the
811 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
812 new build products from interfering with the running
813 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
814 other advice in this file.
815 Build a new kernel first:
816 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
817 expected by the new userland will be present. This
818 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
819 Use object directories:
820 This helps to keep stale object
821 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
822 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
823 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
824 same source tree for multiple machines.
825 To use object directories with build.sh:
826 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
827 To use object directories without using build.sh:
828 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
829 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
830 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
831 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
832 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
833 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
834 Build to a DESTDIR:
835 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
836 from interfering with the new build.
837 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
838 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
839 environment variable before running make build. It should be
840 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
841 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
842 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
843 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
844 (See critical utils, below.)
845 Build often:
846 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
847 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
848 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
849 this problem.
850
851 What to do if things don't work:
852 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
853 When things don't work there is usually a few things that commonly
854 should be done.
855 1) make includes
856 This should be done automatically by make build.
857 2) cd share/mk && make install
858 Again, automatically done by make build.
859
860 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
861 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
862 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
863 something like the following:
864 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
865 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
866 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
867 3) cd ...path/to/util...
868 make cleandir
869 rm ...all obj directories...
870 make cleandir # yes, again
871 make obj
872 make depend && make
873
874 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
875 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
876 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
877 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
878 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
879 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
880
881 ---cut here---
882 #!/bin/sh
883 . /etc/mk.conf
884
885 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
886 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
887 fi
888 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
889 echo Unable to find sources
890 exit 1
891 fi
892 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
893
894 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
895 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
896 fi
897 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
898 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
899 fi
900
901 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
902
903 ---cut here---
904
905 Critical utilities:
906 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
907 usr.bin/compile_et
908 usr.bin/make
909 usr.bin/yacc
910 usr.bin/lex
911 usr.bin/xlint
912 usr.bin/config
913
914 Other problems and possible solutions:
915 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
916 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
917 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
918 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
919 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
920 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
921
922 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
923 cd share/mk && make install
924
925 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
926 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
927
928 Symptom:
929 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
930
931 Symptom:
932 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
933
934 Symptom:
935 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
936
937 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
938 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
939 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
940 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
941 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
942
943 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
944 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
945
946 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
947 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
948
949 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
950 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
951
952 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
953 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
954
955 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
956 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
957
958 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
959 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
960