UPDATING revision 1.264 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.264 2016/01/25 09:24:29 martin 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 Sections are marked with "^^^^^". After the section on "Recent changes"
15 are several sections containing more general information.
16
17 See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile.
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19 Recent changes:
20 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
21
22 20160125:
23 Dtrace has been enabled by default on some architectures.
24 When doing an update build, make sure to clean the etc/mtree
25 object directory before starting the build - otherwise the
26 needed directories in destdir will not be created.
27 An easy way to do this is:
28 cd src/etc/mtree && $TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake-$arch cleandir
29
30 20150818:
31 New acpica requires "make cleandir" in src/external/bsd/acpica
32 again.
33
34 20150413:
35 New acpica requires "make cleandir" and reinstalling yacc
36 in /usr/src/external/bsd/byacc and /usr/src/tools/yacc and
37 also "make cleandir" in /usr/src/external/bsd/acpica.
38
39 20150404:
40 Lint changes require a full rebuild of the tool, so make
41 sure to build without -u option to build.sh, or manually
42 do a make cleandir in src/tools/lint1 and
43 src/usr.bin/xlint.
44
45 20150310:
46 Improvements to openssl for arm mean that update builds of
47 the openssl libraries will fail. A make cleandir in
48 external/bsd/openssl/lib is needed
49
50 20141026:
51 A mishap during the import of pppd may cause your corruption
52 in your cvs directory if you happened to do a cvs update
53 during a short period of time. To fix, just remove the
54 directory src/external/bsd/ppp/dist/pppd completely
55 and let cvs restore it on next update.
56
57 20140721:
58 The src/external/mit/lua/src directory was accidentally created
59 and then deleted in the CVS repository. If you get errors like
60
61 cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory
62 /cvsroot/src/external/mit/lua/src: No such file or directory
63
64 then delete your local copy of that directory tree and try again.
65
66 20140530:
67 ARM eABI switched to DWARF based exception handling. This requires
68 rebuilding all C++ code. It is strongly advised to do a clean build.
69
70 20140131:
71 The new compiler_rt/libc integration moved a few things. It is strongly
72 advised to do a clean build. At least lib/libc, the compat version(s)
73 of libc, libkern, rump and the kernels need to be cleaned.
74
75 20131227:
76 1. The new ntpd runs in a restricted mode to prevent amplification
77 attacks. If you need ntpdc to work you need to explicitly enable
78 mode7 in your config file. Make sure you put the necessary restrict
79 statements to avoid being exposed.
80 2. strncat has moved from lib/libc to common/lib/libc; you might need
81 to make clean in libc
82
83 20131129:
84 The GMP sources were updated, and builds will likely fail without
85 cleaning their build trees for both tools and in-tree, like below.
86
87 20131128:
88 The MPC and MPFR sources were updated, and builds may require their
89 tools and in-tree directories cleaned for successful updates.
90
91 20130605:
92 The kernel option FAST_IPSEC no longer exists, it's been renamed
93 to IPSEC (and the older IPSEC version removed).
94
95 20130605:
96 Previous freetype installations eroneously installed private
97 header files. If you are building against a non-empty $DESTDIR,
98 please remove ${DESTDIR}//usr/X11R7/include/freetype2/freetype/.
99
100 20130531:
101 The xdm update may cause build failure due to xdm.man being
102 in the obj tree. Make sure to ensure any like this:
103 nbmake: nbmake: don't know how to make xdm.man. Stop
104 is fixed by deleting the xdm.man in the obj tree.
105
106 20130530:
107 Updates of many xsrc packages will leave old .pc files around.
108 Best to clean out the xsrc objdir entirely before rebuilds.
109
110 20130301:
111 The removal of netiso requires manual removal of /usr/include/netiso
112 prior to the build and make cleandir in /usr/src/usr.bin/{ktruss,kdump}
113
114 20120726:
115 The update of OpenSSL requires cleaning both the OpenSSL build
116 directory and DESTDIR. *Even non-update builds require cleaning
117 DESTDIR.* Builds done without taking these steps may fail, or in
118 some cases may succeed and install broken OpenSSL libraries that
119 cause third-party software to link incorrectly and/or crash.
120
121 20120507:
122 The database schema for makemandb was changed. You will
123 need to update the database using 'makemandb -f' or wait
124 for the next weekly run to fix it.
125
126 20120319:
127 sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc has been modified to adjust the
128 size of db_symtab automatically. You need to update dbsym in
129 your $TOOLDIR to build kernels with options SYMTAB_SPACE. If
130 you don't want this behavior, add AUTO_SYMTAB_SPACE=no to your
131 mk.conf.
132
133 20120216:
134 Default for MKCATPAGES changed to NO. Update builds will fail
135 unless DESTDIR is cleaned manually. If you built between 20120207
136 and 20120216, daily and weekly could have created an unreadable
137 /var/db/man.db index for apropos. Running makemandb -f or
138 the next run of weekly will fix it.
139
140 20111227:
141 If you built between 20111225 and 20111227 you need to remove
142 /usr/lib/libpam.so.4* and /usr/lib/security/*.so.4, since the
143 bump has been reverted.
144
145 20111125:
146 The "rnd" pseudodevice has been added to sys/conf/std, which
147 means it should no longer be explicitly listed in kernel
148 configuration files. The line "pseudo-device rnd" should be
149 removed from any custom kernel config files users may have.
150
151 20111119:
152 A problem with the datastructures used by the rndctl(8)
153 utility (pointers in datastructures in an array, making 32->64
154 bit compatibility very painful) has been fixed in a
155 non-backwards-compatible way. If you replace your kernel,
156 replace your rndctl executable too.
157
158 20111001:
159 the prop_*_send_syscall() functions from proplib(3) have been
160 changed and their new version is not backward compatible with the old
161 one. So ensure that all consumers of these functions (currently:
162 quota2 code and its tests) are updated together with the new lib.
163
164 20110817:
165 sparc has been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any objdir or
166 DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
167
168 20110806:
169 i386 and amd64 have been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any
170 objdir or DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
171
172 20110805:
173 The update to GCC 4.5.3 requires a non-trivial portion of
174 the tree to be cleaned. Best to delete both objdir and
175 DESTDIR before running this update. So far, only the
176 sparc64, mips and powerpc platforms have changed.
177
178 20110803:
179 The layout of external/public-domain/xz has changed. To do an
180 update build you will have to remove the contents of the OBJDIR
181 for external/public-domain/xz/bin by hand as the xz entry there
182 is now a directory.
183
184 20110410:
185 The configuration of src/tools/gcc has changed. To do an
186 update build you have to clean both tools/binutils and
187 tools/gcc by hand.
188
189 20110328:
190 Building the Xorg binary was moved into a subdirectory to fix
191 ordering issues with "make all". It may be necessary to remove
192 the OBJDIR for external/mit/xorg/server/xorg-server/hw/xfree86
193 if your update build fails, as the "Xorg" entry there is now a
194 directory.
195
196 20110121:
197 Assembler files no longer use -traditional-cpp. This can break
198 the build of individual parts of the tree. This is handled
199 correctly by build.sh. Manual builds have to update /usr/share/mk
200 and re-run config(1) for any kernel configurations as needed.
201
202 20101217:
203 The tcpdump(8) program was changed to drop privileges and chroot(2)
204 by default. It may be necessary to manually update passwd(5) and
205 group(5) in order to make the program work with existing setups.
206
207 20101125:
208 The latest changes to setenv(3) dissallow setting environment
209 variables with names that contain '='. Revision 1.18 of env.c
210 assumed that this was allowed. Installing a new libc with an
211 old copy of /usr/bin/env causes env x=1 printenv | grep x= to
212 break which affects the autoconf tests for dependency finding,
213 so building gcc will end up printing:
214 checking dependency style of gcc... none
215 configure: error: no usable dependency style found
216 Fix it by rebuilding and re-installing env.
217
218 20101119:
219 Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ may cause various build
220 or run-time problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you
221 have any build problems with xsrc, or problems with mismatched
222 versions between xorg-server and drivers.
223
224 20100604:
225 The update of ATF to 0.9 causes old tests written in shell to fail
226 unless they are rebuilt. If you are building with MKUPDATE=yes,
227 you need to clean the src/external/bsd/atf/tests/ and the src/tests/
228 trees by hand.
229
230 20100522:
231 Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ will cause various build
232 problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you have any
233 build problems with xsrc.
234
235 20100522:
236 private section of <ctype.h> was splitted, and now mklocale(1)
237 include ctype_local.h, so you have to make cleandir in tools/mklocale.
238
239 20100520:
240 The location of the xkb compiled descriptions has changed. Please
241 remove usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled from your $DESTDIR.
242
243 20100222:
244 The shared objects file extension has been changed from .so to
245 .pico, in order to avoid conflicts with shared libraries names
246 libXX.so. All now stale regular .so files can be removed from
247 your object directories.
248
249 20100204:
250 The termcap database has been removed from the sources,
251 but has not been marked obsolete so it is not removed
252 from the system when upgrading.
253 As such, you will need to remove them from your object
254 and destination directories.
255
256 20091101:
257 After updating, it may be necessary to make the 'cleandir'
258 target in src/tools/yacc/ and in src/usr.bin/yacc/ before a
259 'build.sh -u tools' or 'build.sh -u distribution'. Ditto
260 src/tools/lex/ and src/usr.bin/lex/.
261
262 20091001:
263 On amd64 you must rebuild tools (to get the new binutils)
264 before building a kernel, or the build fails on cpufunc.S.
265
266 20091001:
267 An error will create a ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/xkb
268 symlink, failing the build. Delete the link, and the subdir
269 it is in, and retry your build.
270
271 20090718:
272 libc build changed so that strchr() provides the extra entry
273 point for index(). Update build of libc.a (and libc_pic.a)
274 may fail because the archive contains the unwanted index.o.
275 (Similarly for strrchr() and rindex().)
276
277 20090709:
278 Native Xorg was upgraded again. Builds will probably fail again
279 without a clean objdir, at least for src/external/mit/xorg.
280
281 20090616:
282 Native Xorg was upgraded. Builds will need a clean objdir for
283 src/external/mit/xorg. Upgrading a system from sets will not
284 work properly yet as the /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
285 subdirectory has been changed into a file, and this needs to
286 be manually "rm -r"'ed before installing xbase.tgz.
287
288 20090501:
289 Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this
290 can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people
291 who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you
292 note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a
293 failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools
294 objects and start again.
295
296 20090325:
297 The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires
298 cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them.
299
300 20090126:
301 The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You
302 need to 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory
303 to avoid using the old assembly stub.
304
305 20090202:
306 pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
307 detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
308 ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
309
310 20090110:
311 time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade:
312 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install.
313 This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is
314 conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c.
315 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work
316 before installing.
317 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and
318 your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers
319 are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc
320 and libutil, install them and then continue building all the
321 libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once
322 the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build.
323 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings,
324 rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries.
325 Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages
326 that depend on it.
327 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file
328 will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible.
329 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see
330 lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic
331 for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after
332 upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during
333 boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by
334 newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the
335 files manually.
336 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see
337 accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be
338 removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by
339 /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove
340 the file.
341 8. Application software that writes time_t to binary files on
342 disk will break or need attention. Most notably: if you are
343 using PostgreSQL < 8.4, you need to dump your databases,
344 rebuild PostgreSQL with the new time_t, then restore.
345
346 20081219:
347 config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates -
348 swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config
349 (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun
350 config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those
351 kernels.
352
353 20081205:
354 If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and
355 /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc
356 set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds.
357
358 20081122:
359 On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including
360 file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules.
361 Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the
362 following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel:
363
364 - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules
365
366 - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module
367 for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically
368
369 If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of
370 the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary
371 file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file.
372
373 20080827:
374 If you built and installed a libc from sources between
375 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3)
376 which results in false errors reported by lint(1).
377 Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is
378 needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.:
379 $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install)
380
381 20080813:
382 MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know
383 about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild.
384
385 20080802:
386 A regression in binary compatibility for pthread_mutex_t has
387 been fixed. Unfortunately, the price is breaking compatibility
388 for -current.
389
390 Threaded programs (using libpthread) and C++ programs (using
391 libstdc++) compiled after 20070907 and before 20080802 need to
392 be recompiled.
393
394 One way to find affected pkgsrc packages:
395
396 $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libpthread /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
397 $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libstdc++ /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
398
399 20080731:
400 WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this
401 time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels
402 and userland (fsck_ffs in particular). Please make sure you
403 don't use a journaled filesystem with an older kernel/userland,
404 especially an uncleanly mounted journaled filesystem. WAPBL
405 also requires the super block to be in the UFS2 format. You
406 can use fsck_ffs -c 4 to update the superblock format.
407
408 20080721:
409 Assembler warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0 and $NOGCCERROR
410 isn't defined.
411
412 20080531:
413 The ioctl number of DRVSUSPENDDEV command on /dev/drvctl changed
414 from 125 (conflicted with DRVCTLCOMMAND) to 129. The drvctl(8)
415 utility needs to be rebuilt and reinstalled as older binaries
416 won't work correctly. The following sequence of commands:
417
418 $ (cd sys/sys/ && nbmake-$arch includes)
419 $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch clean)
420 $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch all)
421
422 leaves new drvctl utility in sbin/drvctl build directory.
423
424 20080503:
425 The <bsd.lib.mk> variable MKPRIVATELIB was renamed to LIBISPRIVATE.
426
427 20080521:
428 For a while, unprivileged UPDATE builds would fail to
429 succeed at the checkflist stage, complaining that
430 ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>/ did not exist. A fix for this
431 problem was committed to share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk, revision 1.9.
432 If you already hit this problem, update the .mk file,
433 remove ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>, and re-run the build.
434
435 20080303:
436 Linker warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0.
437
438 20080126:
439 The posix_fadvise system call has been changed from an assembly
440 stub, to a c file that calls an assembly stub. You need to
441 'rm -f posix_fadvise.* .depend' in the libc build directory to
442 avoid using the old assembly stub.
443
444 20071209:
445 The acpiec(4) driver has been split into two attachments. If you
446 get ACPI errors before the attachment, please update your kernel
447 configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
448
449 20071115:
450 The it(4) driver has been renamed to itesio(4) and the old port
451 argument specified in the kernel configuration file is not valid
452 anymore. The itesio(4) driver now uses the Super I/O address port
453 rather than the EC address port. Please update your kernel
454 configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
455
456 20071028:
457 The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.
458 You need to update any custom kernel configuration file you have
459 to remove any references to pccons (which includes removing the
460 now useless XSERVER option) and replace them with the correct
461 entries for the wscons driver. See the GENERIC configuration file
462 for more details.
463
464 20070913:
465 A latent bug in dhclient/dhcpd that caused it to be unable to
466 enumerate interfaces was fixed. The bug began to cause
467 problems after 20070911 when the kernel's SIOCGIFCONF
468 implementation was repaired. From 20070529 to 20070911 racoon
469 could not enumerate interfaces. (These are noted because
470 normal kernel/userspace version matching hygiene is not
471 sufficient to avoid this problem.) Ensure that both kernel
472 and userland are from after 20070913.
473
474 20070703:
475 nbinstall has been renamed ${MACHINE_GNU_ARCH}-install. It
476 calls the target-specific strip program, and the logic to pass
477 down STRIP from make has been removed. This requires a
478 re-installation of tools.
479
480 20070422:
481 The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
482 has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
483 to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
484 root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
485 root file system will be relative to that file system - unless they
486 start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
487 that has such links.
488 This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
489 the emulated root.
490
491 20070412:
492 The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
493 instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
494 example.
495
496 20070319:
497 src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
498 on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
499 updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
500 cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
501 rebuild of object files that might have been built
502 incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
503 src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
504
505 20070210:
506 src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
507 find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
508 | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
509 will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
510
511 20070209:
512 The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
513 was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
514 kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
515 library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
516 an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
517 (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
518 the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
519 continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
520 is the only threaded application in the base system.
521
522 20061214:
523 Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
524 from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
525 will need to do a "make cleandir" in
526 tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
527 bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
528 usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
529 as the installation images in distrib/
530 in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
531 file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
532
533 20061108:
534 The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
535 changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
536 does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
537 make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
538
539 20061009:
540 The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
541 available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
542
543 20060814:
544 The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
545 withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
546 kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
547 few years should cope.
548
549 20060703:
550 MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
551 if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
552 to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
553
554 20060627:
555 socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
556 For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
557 your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
558 errors will result.
559
560 Hints for a more successful build:
561 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
562 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
563 This will automatically build the tools in the
564 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
565 new build products from interfering with the running
566 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
567 other advice in this file.
568 Build a new kernel first:
569 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
570 expected by the new userland will be present. This
571 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
572 Use object directories:
573 This helps to keep stale object
574 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
575 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
576 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
577 same source tree for multiple machines.
578 To use object directories with build.sh:
579 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
580 To use object directories without using build.sh:
581 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
582 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
583 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
584 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
585 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
586 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
587 Build to a DESTDIR:
588 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
589 from interfering with the new build.
590 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
591 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
592 environment variable before running make build. It should be
593 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
594 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
595 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
596 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
597 (See critical utils, below.)
598 Build often:
599 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
600 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
601 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
602 this problem.
603
604 What to do if things don't work:
605 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
606 When things don't work there are usually a few things that commonly
607 should be done.
608 1) make includes
609 This should be done automatically by make build.
610 2) cd share/mk && make install
611 Again, automatically done by make build.
612
613 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
614 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
615 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
616 something like the following:
617 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
618 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
619 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
620 3) cd ...path/to/util...
621 make cleandir
622 rm ...all obj directories...
623 make cleandir # yes, again
624 make obj
625 make depend && make
626
627 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
628 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
629 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
630 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
631 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
632 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
633
634 ---cut here---
635 #!/bin/sh
636 . /etc/mk.conf
637
638 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
639 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
640 fi
641 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
642 echo Unable to find sources
643 exit 1
644 fi
645 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
646
647 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
648 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
649 fi
650 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
651 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
652 fi
653
654 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
655
656 ---cut here---
657
658 Critical utilities:
659 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
660 usr.bin/compile_et
661 usr.bin/make
662 usr.bin/yacc
663 usr.bin/lex
664 usr.bin/xlint
665 usr.bin/config
666
667 Other problems and possible solutions:
668 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
669 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
670 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
671 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
672 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
673 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
674
675 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
676 cd share/mk && make install
677
678 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
679 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
680
681 Symptom:
682 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
683
684 Symptom:
685 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
686
687 Symptom:
688 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
689
690 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
691 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
692 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
693 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
694 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
695
696 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible
697 pointer type
698 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
699
700 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
701 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
702
703 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
704 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
705
706 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
707 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
708
709 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
710 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
711
712 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
713 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
714
715 Symptom:Update build fails in src/tools/gcc complaining that a variable
716 (e.g. CPPFLAGS) has changed since the previous run.
717 Fix: Run "nbmake-${ARCH} clean" in src/tools/gcc or do a clean build.
718
719 Symptom:cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory /cvsroot/src/...:
720 No such file or directory.
721 Cause: If a directory is created by mistake, then it is sometimes
722 deleted from the CVS repository using administrative commands
723 that bypass the normal cvs access controls. If your cvs working tree
724 contains references to a directory that has been deleted on the
725 server in this way, then "cvs update" reports this error.
726 Fix: Recursively delete the affected directory from your working tree
727 and try the update again.
728