UPDATING revision 1.273 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.273 2016/09/15 07:49:08 mrg 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 20160914:
23 i386, amd64, shark, ofppc and macppc have joined shark and x68k
24 ports in using xorg-server 1.18. This requires a clean destdir
25 and a clean objdir.
26
27 20160527:
28 i386 needs a full cleandir or objdir deletion because PIE has
29 been enabled. (see the amd64 entry two down for further info)
30
31 20160418:
32 libedit needs manual removal of all autogenerated files since
33 some of them are not autogenerated anymore. Remember that there
34 might be two copies of libedit if your platform builds "compat".
35
36 20160410:
37 amd64 needs full "make cleandir" or deletion of objdir now that
38 PIE has been enabled for amd64. PIE, or position-independent
39 executables, means all code, including executables and not just
40 shared libraries, is position-independent and hence able to be
41 relocated by ASLR, address space layout randomization.
42
43 The change was made in Makefile variables for compiler and
44 linker flags, for which make(1) does not record dependencies,
45 hence it is unable to detect that all .o files need rebuilding.
46
47 Partial rebuilds with some modified source files will likely
48 fail when linking executables, since the linker refuses to mix
49 position-independent code with position-dependent code in
50 position-independent executables:
51
52 .../x86_64--netbsd/bin/ld: foo.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `...' cannot be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
53
54 20160401:
55 Ports switching to GCC 5.3 will need a full "make cleandir".
56 Some people have found that cleandir is not sufficient, so if
57 in doubt delete the entire object directory tree for gcc.
58
59 20160306:
60 NetBSD's regexp implementation is now part of libnbcompat.
61 Nblex, nbm4, nbpax, nbsed use it and they may crash on
62 non-NetBSD hosts if linked with stale object files produced
63 while they included a non-NetBSD regex.h.
64 In any case, you should "make cleandir" at least these tools
65 before updating your toolchain.
66
67 20160125:
68 Dtrace has been enabled by default on some architectures.
69 When doing an update build, make sure to clean the etc/mtree
70 object directory before starting the build - otherwise the
71 needed directories in destdir will not be created.
72 An easy way to do this is:
73 cd src/etc/mtree && $TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake-$arch cleandir
74
75 20150818:
76 New acpica requires "make cleandir" in src/external/bsd/acpica
77 again.
78
79 20150413:
80 New acpica requires "make cleandir" and reinstalling yacc
81 in /usr/src/external/bsd/byacc and /usr/src/tools/yacc and
82 also "make cleandir" in /usr/src/external/bsd/acpica.
83
84 20150404:
85 Lint changes require a full rebuild of the tool, so make
86 sure to build without -u option to build.sh, or manually
87 do a make cleandir in src/tools/lint1 and
88 src/usr.bin/xlint.
89
90 20150310:
91 Improvements to openssl for arm mean that update builds of
92 the openssl libraries will fail. A make cleandir in
93 external/bsd/openssl/lib is needed
94
95 20141026:
96 A mishap during the import of pppd may cause your corruption
97 in your cvs directory if you happened to do a cvs update
98 during a short period of time. To fix, just remove the
99 directory src/external/bsd/ppp/dist/pppd completely
100 and let cvs restore it on next update.
101
102 20140721:
103 The src/external/mit/lua/src directory was accidentally created
104 and then deleted in the CVS repository. If you get errors like
105
106 cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory
107 /cvsroot/src/external/mit/lua/src: No such file or directory
108
109 then delete your local copy of that directory tree and try again.
110
111 20140530:
112 ARM eABI switched to DWARF based exception handling. This requires
113 rebuilding all C++ code. It is strongly advised to do a clean build.
114
115 20140131:
116 The new compiler_rt/libc integration moved a few things. It is strongly
117 advised to do a clean build. At least lib/libc, the compat version(s)
118 of libc, libkern, rump and the kernels need to be cleaned.
119
120 20131227:
121 1. The new ntpd runs in a restricted mode to prevent amplification
122 attacks. If you need ntpdc to work you need to explicitly enable
123 mode7 in your config file. Make sure you put the necessary restrict
124 statements to avoid being exposed.
125 2. strncat has moved from lib/libc to common/lib/libc; you might need
126 to make clean in libc
127
128 20131129:
129 The GMP sources were updated, and builds will likely fail without
130 cleaning their build trees for both tools and in-tree, like below.
131
132 20131128:
133 The MPC and MPFR sources were updated, and builds may require their
134 tools and in-tree directories cleaned for successful updates.
135
136 20130605:
137 The kernel option FAST_IPSEC no longer exists, it's been renamed
138 to IPSEC (and the older IPSEC version removed).
139
140 20130605:
141 Previous freetype installations eroneously installed private
142 header files. If you are building against a non-empty $DESTDIR,
143 please remove ${DESTDIR}//usr/X11R7/include/freetype2/freetype/.
144
145 20130531:
146 The xdm update may cause build failure due to xdm.man being
147 in the obj tree. Make sure to ensure any like this:
148 nbmake: nbmake: don't know how to make xdm.man. Stop
149 is fixed by deleting the xdm.man in the obj tree.
150
151 20130530:
152 Updates of many xsrc packages will leave old .pc files around.
153 Best to clean out the xsrc objdir entirely before rebuilds.
154
155 20130301:
156 The removal of netiso requires manual removal of /usr/include/netiso
157 prior to the build and make cleandir in /usr/src/usr.bin/{ktruss,kdump}
158
159 20120726:
160 The update of OpenSSL requires cleaning both the OpenSSL build
161 directory and DESTDIR. *Even non-update builds require cleaning
162 DESTDIR.* Builds done without taking these steps may fail, or in
163 some cases may succeed and install broken OpenSSL libraries that
164 cause third-party software to link incorrectly and/or crash.
165
166 20120507:
167 The database schema for makemandb was changed. You will
168 need to update the database using 'makemandb -f' or wait
169 for the next weekly run to fix it.
170
171 20120319:
172 sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc has been modified to adjust the
173 size of db_symtab automatically. You need to update dbsym in
174 your $TOOLDIR to build kernels with options SYMTAB_SPACE. If
175 you don't want this behavior, add AUTO_SYMTAB_SPACE=no to your
176 mk.conf.
177
178 20120216:
179 Default for MKCATPAGES changed to NO. Update builds will fail
180 unless DESTDIR is cleaned manually. If you built between 20120207
181 and 20120216, daily and weekly could have created an unreadable
182 /var/db/man.db index for apropos. Running makemandb -f or
183 the next run of weekly will fix it.
184
185 20111227:
186 If you built between 20111225 and 20111227 you need to remove
187 /usr/lib/libpam.so.4* and /usr/lib/security/*.so.4, since the
188 bump has been reverted.
189
190 20111125:
191 The "rnd" pseudodevice has been added to sys/conf/std, which
192 means it should no longer be explicitly listed in kernel
193 configuration files. The line "pseudo-device rnd" should be
194 removed from any custom kernel config files users may have.
195
196 20111119:
197 A problem with the datastructures used by the rndctl(8)
198 utility (pointers in datastructures in an array, making 32->64
199 bit compatibility very painful) has been fixed in a
200 non-backwards-compatible way. If you replace your kernel,
201 replace your rndctl executable too.
202
203 20111001:
204 the prop_*_send_syscall() functions from proplib(3) have been
205 changed and their new version is not backward compatible with the old
206 one. So ensure that all consumers of these functions (currently:
207 quota2 code and its tests) are updated together with the new lib.
208
209 20110817:
210 sparc has been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any objdir or
211 DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
212
213 20110806:
214 i386 and amd64 have been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any
215 objdir or DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
216
217 20110805:
218 The update to GCC 4.5.3 requires a non-trivial portion of
219 the tree to be cleaned. Best to delete both objdir and
220 DESTDIR before running this update. So far, only the
221 sparc64, mips and powerpc platforms have changed.
222
223 20110803:
224 The layout of external/public-domain/xz has changed. To do an
225 update build you will have to remove the contents of the OBJDIR
226 for external/public-domain/xz/bin by hand as the xz entry there
227 is now a directory.
228
229 20110410:
230 The configuration of src/tools/gcc has changed. To do an
231 update build you have to clean both tools/binutils and
232 tools/gcc by hand.
233
234 20110328:
235 Building the Xorg binary was moved into a subdirectory to fix
236 ordering issues with "make all". It may be necessary to remove
237 the OBJDIR for external/mit/xorg/server/xorg-server/hw/xfree86
238 if your update build fails, as the "Xorg" entry there is now a
239 directory.
240
241 20110121:
242 Assembler files no longer use -traditional-cpp. This can break
243 the build of individual parts of the tree. This is handled
244 correctly by build.sh. Manual builds have to update /usr/share/mk
245 and re-run config(1) for any kernel configurations as needed.
246
247 20101217:
248 The tcpdump(8) program was changed to drop privileges and chroot(2)
249 by default. It may be necessary to manually update passwd(5) and
250 group(5) in order to make the program work with existing setups.
251
252 20101125:
253 The latest changes to setenv(3) dissallow setting environment
254 variables with names that contain '='. Revision 1.18 of env.c
255 assumed that this was allowed. Installing a new libc with an
256 old copy of /usr/bin/env causes env x=1 printenv | grep x= to
257 break which affects the autoconf tests for dependency finding,
258 so building gcc will end up printing:
259 checking dependency style of gcc... none
260 configure: error: no usable dependency style found
261 Fix it by rebuilding and re-installing env.
262
263 20101119:
264 Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ may cause various build
265 or run-time problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you
266 have any build problems with xsrc, or problems with mismatched
267 versions between xorg-server and drivers.
268
269 20100604:
270 The update of ATF to 0.9 causes old tests written in shell to fail
271 unless they are rebuilt. If you are building with MKUPDATE=yes,
272 you need to clean the src/external/bsd/atf/tests/ and the src/tests/
273 trees by hand.
274
275 20100522:
276 Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ will cause various build
277 problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you have any
278 build problems with xsrc.
279
280 20100522:
281 private section of <ctype.h> was splitted, and now mklocale(1)
282 include ctype_local.h, so you have to make cleandir in tools/mklocale.
283
284 20100520:
285 The location of the xkb compiled descriptions has changed. Please
286 remove usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled from your $DESTDIR.
287
288 20100222:
289 The shared objects file extension has been changed from .so to
290 .pico, in order to avoid conflicts with shared libraries names
291 libXX.so. All now stale regular .so files can be removed from
292 your object directories.
293
294 20100204:
295 The termcap database has been removed from the sources,
296 but has not been marked obsolete so it is not removed
297 from the system when upgrading.
298 As such, you will need to remove them from your object
299 and destination directories.
300
301 20091101:
302 After updating, it may be necessary to make the 'cleandir'
303 target in src/tools/yacc/ and in src/usr.bin/yacc/ before a
304 'build.sh -u tools' or 'build.sh -u distribution'. Ditto
305 src/tools/lex/ and src/usr.bin/lex/.
306
307 20091001:
308 On amd64 you must rebuild tools (to get the new binutils)
309 before building a kernel, or the build fails on cpufunc.S.
310
311 20091001:
312 An error will create a ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/xkb
313 symlink, failing the build. Delete the link, and the subdir
314 it is in, and retry your build.
315
316 20090718:
317 libc build changed so that strchr() provides the extra entry
318 point for index(). Update build of libc.a (and libc_pic.a)
319 may fail because the archive contains the unwanted index.o.
320 (Similarly for strrchr() and rindex().)
321
322 20090709:
323 Native Xorg was upgraded again. Builds will probably fail again
324 without a clean objdir, at least for src/external/mit/xorg.
325
326 20090616:
327 Native Xorg was upgraded. Builds will need a clean objdir for
328 src/external/mit/xorg. Upgrading a system from sets will not
329 work properly yet as the /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
330 subdirectory has been changed into a file, and this needs to
331 be manually "rm -r"'ed before installing xbase.tgz.
332
333 20090501:
334 Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this
335 can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people
336 who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you
337 note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a
338 failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools
339 objects and start again.
340
341 20090325:
342 The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires
343 cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them.
344
345 20090126:
346 The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You
347 need to 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory
348 to avoid using the old assembly stub.
349
350 20090202:
351 pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
352 detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
353 ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
354
355 20090110:
356 time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade:
357 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install.
358 This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is
359 conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c.
360 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work
361 before installing.
362 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and
363 your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers
364 are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc
365 and libutil, install them and then continue building all the
366 libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once
367 the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build.
368 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings,
369 rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries.
370 Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages
371 that depend on it.
372 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file
373 will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible.
374 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see
375 lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic
376 for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after
377 upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during
378 boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by
379 newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the
380 files manually.
381 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see
382 accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be
383 removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by
384 /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove
385 the file.
386 8. Application software that writes time_t to binary files on
387 disk will break or need attention. Most notably: if you are
388 using PostgreSQL < 8.4, you need to dump your databases,
389 rebuild PostgreSQL with the new time_t, then restore.
390
391 20081219:
392 config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates -
393 swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config
394 (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun
395 config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those
396 kernels.
397
398 20081205:
399 If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and
400 /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc
401 set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds.
402
403 20081122:
404 On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including
405 file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules.
406 Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the
407 following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel:
408
409 - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules
410
411 - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module
412 for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically
413
414 If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of
415 the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary
416 file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file.
417
418 20080827:
419 If you built and installed a libc from sources between
420 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3)
421 which results in false errors reported by lint(1).
422 Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is
423 needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.:
424 $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install)
425
426 20080813:
427 MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know
428 about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild.
429
430 20080802:
431 A regression in binary compatibility for pthread_mutex_t has
432 been fixed. Unfortunately, the price is breaking compatibility
433 for -current.
434
435 Threaded programs (using libpthread) and C++ programs (using
436 libstdc++) compiled after 20070907 and before 20080802 need to
437 be recompiled.
438
439 One way to find affected pkgsrc packages:
440
441 $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libpthread /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
442 $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libstdc++ /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
443
444 20080731:
445 WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this
446 time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels
447 and userland (fsck_ffs in particular). Please make sure you
448 don't use a journaled filesystem with an older kernel/userland,
449 especially an uncleanly mounted journaled filesystem. WAPBL
450 also requires the super block to be in the UFS2 format. You
451 can use fsck_ffs -c 4 to update the superblock format.
452
453 20080721:
454 Assembler warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0 and $NOGCCERROR
455 isn't defined.
456
457 20080531:
458 The ioctl number of DRVSUSPENDDEV command on /dev/drvctl changed
459 from 125 (conflicted with DRVCTLCOMMAND) to 129. The drvctl(8)
460 utility needs to be rebuilt and reinstalled as older binaries
461 won't work correctly. The following sequence of commands:
462
463 $ (cd sys/sys/ && nbmake-$arch includes)
464 $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch clean)
465 $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch all)
466
467 leaves new drvctl utility in sbin/drvctl build directory.
468
469 20080503:
470 The <bsd.lib.mk> variable MKPRIVATELIB was renamed to LIBISPRIVATE.
471
472 20080521:
473 For a while, unprivileged UPDATE builds would fail to
474 succeed at the checkflist stage, complaining that
475 ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>/ did not exist. A fix for this
476 problem was committed to share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk, revision 1.9.
477 If you already hit this problem, update the .mk file,
478 remove ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>, and re-run the build.
479
480 20080303:
481 Linker warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0.
482
483 20080126:
484 The posix_fadvise system call has been changed from an assembly
485 stub, to a c file that calls an assembly stub. You need to
486 'rm -f posix_fadvise.* .depend' in the libc build directory to
487 avoid using the old assembly stub.
488
489 20071209:
490 The acpiec(4) driver has been split into two attachments. If you
491 get ACPI errors before the attachment, please update your kernel
492 configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
493
494 20071115:
495 The it(4) driver has been renamed to itesio(4) and the old port
496 argument specified in the kernel configuration file is not valid
497 anymore. The itesio(4) driver now uses the Super I/O address port
498 rather than the EC address port. Please update your kernel
499 configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
500
501 20071028:
502 The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.
503 You need to update any custom kernel configuration file you have
504 to remove any references to pccons (which includes removing the
505 now useless XSERVER option) and replace them with the correct
506 entries for the wscons driver. See the GENERIC configuration file
507 for more details.
508
509 20070913:
510 A latent bug in dhclient/dhcpd that caused it to be unable to
511 enumerate interfaces was fixed. The bug began to cause
512 problems after 20070911 when the kernel's SIOCGIFCONF
513 implementation was repaired. From 20070529 to 20070911 racoon
514 could not enumerate interfaces. (These are noted because
515 normal kernel/userspace version matching hygiene is not
516 sufficient to avoid this problem.) Ensure that both kernel
517 and userland are from after 20070913.
518
519 20070703:
520 nbinstall has been renamed ${MACHINE_GNU_ARCH}-install. It
521 calls the target-specific strip program, and the logic to pass
522 down STRIP from make has been removed. This requires a
523 re-installation of tools.
524
525 20070422:
526 The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
527 has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
528 to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
529 root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
530 root file system will be relative to that file system - unless they
531 start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
532 that has such links.
533 This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
534 the emulated root.
535
536 20070412:
537 The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
538 instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
539 example.
540
541 20070319:
542 src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
543 on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
544 updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
545 cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
546 rebuild of object files that might have been built
547 incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
548 src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
549
550 20070210:
551 src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
552 find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
553 | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
554 will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
555
556 20070209:
557 The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
558 was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
559 kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
560 library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
561 an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
562 (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
563 the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
564 continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
565 is the only threaded application in the base system.
566
567 20061214:
568 Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
569 from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
570 will need to do a "make cleandir" in
571 tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
572 bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
573 usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
574 as the installation images in distrib/
575 in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
576 file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
577
578 20061108:
579 The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
580 changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
581 does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
582 make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
583
584 20061009:
585 The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
586 available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
587
588 20060814:
589 The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
590 withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
591 kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
592 few years should cope.
593
594 20060703:
595 MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
596 if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
597 to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
598
599 20060627:
600 socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
601 For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
602 your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
603 errors will result.
604
605 Hints for a more successful build:
606 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
607 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
608 This will automatically build the tools in the
609 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
610 new build products from interfering with the running
611 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
612 other advice in this file.
613 Build a new kernel first:
614 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
615 expected by the new userland will be present. This
616 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
617 Use object directories:
618 This helps to keep stale object
619 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
620 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
621 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
622 same source tree for multiple machines.
623 To use object directories with build.sh:
624 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
625 To use object directories without using build.sh:
626 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
627 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
628 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
629 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
630 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
631 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
632 Build to a DESTDIR:
633 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
634 from interfering with the new build.
635 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
636 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
637 environment variable before running make build. It should be
638 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
639 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
640 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
641 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
642 (See critical utils, below.)
643 Build often:
644 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
645 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
646 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
647 this problem.
648
649 What to do if things don't work:
650 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
651 When things don't work there are usually a few things that commonly
652 should be done.
653 1) make includes
654 This should be done automatically by make build.
655 2) cd share/mk && make install
656 Again, automatically done by make build.
657
658 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
659 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
660 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
661 something like the following:
662 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
663 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
664 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
665 3) cd ...path/to/util...
666 make cleandir
667 rm ...all obj directories...
668 make cleandir # yes, again
669 make obj
670 make depend && make
671
672 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
673 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
674 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
675 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
676 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
677 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
678
679 ---cut here---
680 #!/bin/sh
681 . /etc/mk.conf
682
683 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
684 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
685 fi
686 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
687 echo Unable to find sources
688 exit 1
689 fi
690 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
691
692 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
693 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
694 fi
695 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
696 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
697 fi
698
699 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
700
701 ---cut here---
702
703 Critical utilities:
704 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
705 usr.bin/compile_et
706 usr.bin/make
707 usr.bin/yacc
708 usr.bin/lex
709 usr.bin/xlint
710 usr.bin/config
711
712 Other problems and possible solutions:
713 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
714 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
715 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
716 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
717 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
718 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
719
720 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
721 cd share/mk && make install
722
723 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
724 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
725
726 Symptom:
727 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
728
729 Symptom:
730 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
731
732 Symptom:
733 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
734
735 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
736 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
737 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
738 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
739 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
740
741 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible
742 pointer type
743 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
744
745 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
746 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
747
748 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
749 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
750
751 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
752 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
753
754 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
755 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
756
757 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
758 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
759
760 Symptom:Update build fails in src/tools/gcc complaining that a variable
761 (e.g. CPPFLAGS) has changed since the previous run.
762 Fix: Run "nbmake-${ARCH} clean" in src/tools/gcc or do a clean build.
763
764 Symptom:cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory /cvsroot/src/...:
765 No such file or directory.
766 Cause: If a directory is created by mistake, then it is sometimes
767 deleted from the CVS repository using administrative commands
768 that bypass the normal cvs access controls. If your cvs working tree
769 contains references to a directory that has been deleted on the
770 server in this way, then "cvs update" reports this error.
771 Fix: Recursively delete the affected directory from your working tree
772 and try the update again.
773