UPDATING revision 1.274 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.274 2016/10/10 13:28:24 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 20161009:
23 a new version of dhcpcd has been imported with slightly changed
24 build infrastructure. When doing a build.sh -u this requires
25 pruning the external/bsd/dhcpcd objdir.
26
27 20160914:
28 i386, amd64, shark, ofppc and macppc have joined shark and x68k
29 ports in using xorg-server 1.18. This requires a clean destdir
30 and a clean objdir.
31
32 20160527:
33 i386 needs a full cleandir or objdir deletion because PIE has
34 been enabled. (see the amd64 entry two down for further info)
35
36 20160418:
37 libedit needs manual removal of all autogenerated files since
38 some of them are not autogenerated anymore. Remember that there
39 might be two copies of libedit if your platform builds "compat".
40
41 20160410:
42 amd64 needs full "make cleandir" or deletion of objdir now that
43 PIE has been enabled for amd64. PIE, or position-independent
44 executables, means all code, including executables and not just
45 shared libraries, is position-independent and hence able to be
46 relocated by ASLR, address space layout randomization.
47
48 The change was made in Makefile variables for compiler and
49 linker flags, for which make(1) does not record dependencies,
50 hence it is unable to detect that all .o files need rebuilding.
51
52 Partial rebuilds with some modified source files will likely
53 fail when linking executables, since the linker refuses to mix
54 position-independent code with position-dependent code in
55 position-independent executables:
56
57 .../x86_64--netbsd/bin/ld: foo.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `...' cannot be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
58
59 20160401:
60 Ports switching to GCC 5.3 will need a full "make cleandir".
61 Some people have found that cleandir is not sufficient, so if
62 in doubt delete the entire object directory tree for gcc.
63
64 20160306:
65 NetBSD's regexp implementation is now part of libnbcompat.
66 Nblex, nbm4, nbpax, nbsed use it and they may crash on
67 non-NetBSD hosts if linked with stale object files produced
68 while they included a non-NetBSD regex.h.
69 In any case, you should "make cleandir" at least these tools
70 before updating your toolchain.
71
72 20160125:
73 Dtrace has been enabled by default on some architectures.
74 When doing an update build, make sure to clean the etc/mtree
75 object directory before starting the build - otherwise the
76 needed directories in destdir will not be created.
77 An easy way to do this is:
78 cd src/etc/mtree && $TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake-$arch cleandir
79
80 20150818:
81 New acpica requires "make cleandir" in src/external/bsd/acpica
82 again.
83
84 20150413:
85 New acpica requires "make cleandir" and reinstalling yacc
86 in /usr/src/external/bsd/byacc and /usr/src/tools/yacc and
87 also "make cleandir" in /usr/src/external/bsd/acpica.
88
89 20150404:
90 Lint changes require a full rebuild of the tool, so make
91 sure to build without -u option to build.sh, or manually
92 do a make cleandir in src/tools/lint1 and
93 src/usr.bin/xlint.
94
95 20150310:
96 Improvements to openssl for arm mean that update builds of
97 the openssl libraries will fail. A make cleandir in
98 external/bsd/openssl/lib is needed
99
100 20141026:
101 A mishap during the import of pppd may cause your corruption
102 in your cvs directory if you happened to do a cvs update
103 during a short period of time. To fix, just remove the
104 directory src/external/bsd/ppp/dist/pppd completely
105 and let cvs restore it on next update.
106
107 20140721:
108 The src/external/mit/lua/src directory was accidentally created
109 and then deleted in the CVS repository. If you get errors like
110
111 cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory
112 /cvsroot/src/external/mit/lua/src: No such file or directory
113
114 then delete your local copy of that directory tree and try again.
115
116 20140530:
117 ARM eABI switched to DWARF based exception handling. This requires
118 rebuilding all C++ code. It is strongly advised to do a clean build.
119
120 20140131:
121 The new compiler_rt/libc integration moved a few things. It is strongly
122 advised to do a clean build. At least lib/libc, the compat version(s)
123 of libc, libkern, rump and the kernels need to be cleaned.
124
125 20131227:
126 1. The new ntpd runs in a restricted mode to prevent amplification
127 attacks. If you need ntpdc to work you need to explicitly enable
128 mode7 in your config file. Make sure you put the necessary restrict
129 statements to avoid being exposed.
130 2. strncat has moved from lib/libc to common/lib/libc; you might need
131 to make clean in libc
132
133 20131129:
134 The GMP sources were updated, and builds will likely fail without
135 cleaning their build trees for both tools and in-tree, like below.
136
137 20131128:
138 The MPC and MPFR sources were updated, and builds may require their
139 tools and in-tree directories cleaned for successful updates.
140
141 20130605:
142 The kernel option FAST_IPSEC no longer exists, it's been renamed
143 to IPSEC (and the older IPSEC version removed).
144
145 20130605:
146 Previous freetype installations eroneously installed private
147 header files. If you are building against a non-empty $DESTDIR,
148 please remove ${DESTDIR}//usr/X11R7/include/freetype2/freetype/.
149
150 20130531:
151 The xdm update may cause build failure due to xdm.man being
152 in the obj tree. Make sure to ensure any like this:
153 nbmake: nbmake: don't know how to make xdm.man. Stop
154 is fixed by deleting the xdm.man in the obj tree.
155
156 20130530:
157 Updates of many xsrc packages will leave old .pc files around.
158 Best to clean out the xsrc objdir entirely before rebuilds.
159
160 20130301:
161 The removal of netiso requires manual removal of /usr/include/netiso
162 prior to the build and make cleandir in /usr/src/usr.bin/{ktruss,kdump}
163
164 20120726:
165 The update of OpenSSL requires cleaning both the OpenSSL build
166 directory and DESTDIR. *Even non-update builds require cleaning
167 DESTDIR.* Builds done without taking these steps may fail, or in
168 some cases may succeed and install broken OpenSSL libraries that
169 cause third-party software to link incorrectly and/or crash.
170
171 20120507:
172 The database schema for makemandb was changed. You will
173 need to update the database using 'makemandb -f' or wait
174 for the next weekly run to fix it.
175
176 20120319:
177 sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc has been modified to adjust the
178 size of db_symtab automatically. You need to update dbsym in
179 your $TOOLDIR to build kernels with options SYMTAB_SPACE. If
180 you don't want this behavior, add AUTO_SYMTAB_SPACE=no to your
181 mk.conf.
182
183 20120216:
184 Default for MKCATPAGES changed to NO. Update builds will fail
185 unless DESTDIR is cleaned manually. If you built between 20120207
186 and 20120216, daily and weekly could have created an unreadable
187 /var/db/man.db index for apropos. Running makemandb -f or
188 the next run of weekly will fix it.
189
190 20111227:
191 If you built between 20111225 and 20111227 you need to remove
192 /usr/lib/libpam.so.4* and /usr/lib/security/*.so.4, since the
193 bump has been reverted.
194
195 20111125:
196 The "rnd" pseudodevice has been added to sys/conf/std, which
197 means it should no longer be explicitly listed in kernel
198 configuration files. The line "pseudo-device rnd" should be
199 removed from any custom kernel config files users may have.
200
201 20111119:
202 A problem with the datastructures used by the rndctl(8)
203 utility (pointers in datastructures in an array, making 32->64
204 bit compatibility very painful) has been fixed in a
205 non-backwards-compatible way. If you replace your kernel,
206 replace your rndctl executable too.
207
208 20111001:
209 the prop_*_send_syscall() functions from proplib(3) have been
210 changed and their new version is not backward compatible with the old
211 one. So ensure that all consumers of these functions (currently:
212 quota2 code and its tests) are updated together with the new lib.
213
214 20110817:
215 sparc has been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any objdir or
216 DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
217
218 20110806:
219 i386 and amd64 have been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any
220 objdir or DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
221
222 20110805:
223 The update to GCC 4.5.3 requires a non-trivial portion of
224 the tree to be cleaned. Best to delete both objdir and
225 DESTDIR before running this update. So far, only the
226 sparc64, mips and powerpc platforms have changed.
227
228 20110803:
229 The layout of external/public-domain/xz has changed. To do an
230 update build you will have to remove the contents of the OBJDIR
231 for external/public-domain/xz/bin by hand as the xz entry there
232 is now a directory.
233
234 20110410:
235 The configuration of src/tools/gcc has changed. To do an
236 update build you have to clean both tools/binutils and
237 tools/gcc by hand.
238
239 20110328:
240 Building the Xorg binary was moved into a subdirectory to fix
241 ordering issues with "make all". It may be necessary to remove
242 the OBJDIR for external/mit/xorg/server/xorg-server/hw/xfree86
243 if your update build fails, as the "Xorg" entry there is now a
244 directory.
245
246 20110121:
247 Assembler files no longer use -traditional-cpp. This can break
248 the build of individual parts of the tree. This is handled
249 correctly by build.sh. Manual builds have to update /usr/share/mk
250 and re-run config(1) for any kernel configurations as needed.
251
252 20101217:
253 The tcpdump(8) program was changed to drop privileges and chroot(2)
254 by default. It may be necessary to manually update passwd(5) and
255 group(5) in order to make the program work with existing setups.
256
257 20101125:
258 The latest changes to setenv(3) dissallow setting environment
259 variables with names that contain '='. Revision 1.18 of env.c
260 assumed that this was allowed. Installing a new libc with an
261 old copy of /usr/bin/env causes env x=1 printenv | grep x= to
262 break which affects the autoconf tests for dependency finding,
263 so building gcc will end up printing:
264 checking dependency style of gcc... none
265 configure: error: no usable dependency style found
266 Fix it by rebuilding and re-installing env.
267
268 20101119:
269 Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ may cause various build
270 or run-time problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you
271 have any build problems with xsrc, or problems with mismatched
272 versions between xorg-server and drivers.
273
274 20100604:
275 The update of ATF to 0.9 causes old tests written in shell to fail
276 unless they are rebuilt. If you are building with MKUPDATE=yes,
277 you need to clean the src/external/bsd/atf/tests/ and the src/tests/
278 trees by hand.
279
280 20100522:
281 Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ will cause various build
282 problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you have any
283 build problems with xsrc.
284
285 20100522:
286 private section of <ctype.h> was splitted, and now mklocale(1)
287 include ctype_local.h, so you have to make cleandir in tools/mklocale.
288
289 20100520:
290 The location of the xkb compiled descriptions has changed. Please
291 remove usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled from your $DESTDIR.
292
293 20100222:
294 The shared objects file extension has been changed from .so to
295 .pico, in order to avoid conflicts with shared libraries names
296 libXX.so. All now stale regular .so files can be removed from
297 your object directories.
298
299 20100204:
300 The termcap database has been removed from the sources,
301 but has not been marked obsolete so it is not removed
302 from the system when upgrading.
303 As such, you will need to remove them from your object
304 and destination directories.
305
306 20091101:
307 After updating, it may be necessary to make the 'cleandir'
308 target in src/tools/yacc/ and in src/usr.bin/yacc/ before a
309 'build.sh -u tools' or 'build.sh -u distribution'. Ditto
310 src/tools/lex/ and src/usr.bin/lex/.
311
312 20091001:
313 On amd64 you must rebuild tools (to get the new binutils)
314 before building a kernel, or the build fails on cpufunc.S.
315
316 20091001:
317 An error will create a ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/xkb
318 symlink, failing the build. Delete the link, and the subdir
319 it is in, and retry your build.
320
321 20090718:
322 libc build changed so that strchr() provides the extra entry
323 point for index(). Update build of libc.a (and libc_pic.a)
324 may fail because the archive contains the unwanted index.o.
325 (Similarly for strrchr() and rindex().)
326
327 20090709:
328 Native Xorg was upgraded again. Builds will probably fail again
329 without a clean objdir, at least for src/external/mit/xorg.
330
331 20090616:
332 Native Xorg was upgraded. Builds will need a clean objdir for
333 src/external/mit/xorg. Upgrading a system from sets will not
334 work properly yet as the /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
335 subdirectory has been changed into a file, and this needs to
336 be manually "rm -r"'ed before installing xbase.tgz.
337
338 20090501:
339 Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this
340 can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people
341 who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you
342 note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a
343 failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools
344 objects and start again.
345
346 20090325:
347 The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires
348 cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them.
349
350 20090126:
351 The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You
352 need to 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory
353 to avoid using the old assembly stub.
354
355 20090202:
356 pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
357 detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
358 ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
359
360 20090110:
361 time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade:
362 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install.
363 This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is
364 conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c.
365 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work
366 before installing.
367 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and
368 your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers
369 are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc
370 and libutil, install them and then continue building all the
371 libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once
372 the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build.
373 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings,
374 rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries.
375 Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages
376 that depend on it.
377 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file
378 will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible.
379 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see
380 lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic
381 for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after
382 upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during
383 boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by
384 newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the
385 files manually.
386 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see
387 accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be
388 removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by
389 /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove
390 the file.
391 8. Application software that writes time_t to binary files on
392 disk will break or need attention. Most notably: if you are
393 using PostgreSQL < 8.4, you need to dump your databases,
394 rebuild PostgreSQL with the new time_t, then restore.
395
396 20081219:
397 config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates -
398 swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config
399 (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun
400 config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those
401 kernels.
402
403 20081205:
404 If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and
405 /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc
406 set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds.
407
408 20081122:
409 On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including
410 file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules.
411 Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the
412 following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel:
413
414 - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules
415
416 - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module
417 for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically
418
419 If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of
420 the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary
421 file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file.
422
423 20080827:
424 If you built and installed a libc from sources between
425 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3)
426 which results in false errors reported by lint(1).
427 Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is
428 needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.:
429 $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install)
430
431 20080813:
432 MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know
433 about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild.
434
435 20080802:
436 A regression in binary compatibility for pthread_mutex_t has
437 been fixed. Unfortunately, the price is breaking compatibility
438 for -current.
439
440 Threaded programs (using libpthread) and C++ programs (using
441 libstdc++) compiled after 20070907 and before 20080802 need to
442 be recompiled.
443
444 One way to find affected pkgsrc packages:
445
446 $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libpthread /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
447 $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libstdc++ /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
448
449 20080731:
450 WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this
451 time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels
452 and userland (fsck_ffs in particular). Please make sure you
453 don't use a journaled filesystem with an older kernel/userland,
454 especially an uncleanly mounted journaled filesystem. WAPBL
455 also requires the super block to be in the UFS2 format. You
456 can use fsck_ffs -c 4 to update the superblock format.
457
458 20080721:
459 Assembler warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0 and $NOGCCERROR
460 isn't defined.
461
462 20080531:
463 The ioctl number of DRVSUSPENDDEV command on /dev/drvctl changed
464 from 125 (conflicted with DRVCTLCOMMAND) to 129. The drvctl(8)
465 utility needs to be rebuilt and reinstalled as older binaries
466 won't work correctly. The following sequence of commands:
467
468 $ (cd sys/sys/ && nbmake-$arch includes)
469 $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch clean)
470 $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch all)
471
472 leaves new drvctl utility in sbin/drvctl build directory.
473
474 20080503:
475 The <bsd.lib.mk> variable MKPRIVATELIB was renamed to LIBISPRIVATE.
476
477 20080521:
478 For a while, unprivileged UPDATE builds would fail to
479 succeed at the checkflist stage, complaining that
480 ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>/ did not exist. A fix for this
481 problem was committed to share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk, revision 1.9.
482 If you already hit this problem, update the .mk file,
483 remove ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>, and re-run the build.
484
485 20080303:
486 Linker warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0.
487
488 20080126:
489 The posix_fadvise system call has been changed from an assembly
490 stub, to a c file that calls an assembly stub. You need to
491 'rm -f posix_fadvise.* .depend' in the libc build directory to
492 avoid using the old assembly stub.
493
494 20071209:
495 The acpiec(4) driver has been split into two attachments. If you
496 get ACPI errors before the attachment, please update your kernel
497 configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
498
499 20071115:
500 The it(4) driver has been renamed to itesio(4) and the old port
501 argument specified in the kernel configuration file is not valid
502 anymore. The itesio(4) driver now uses the Super I/O address port
503 rather than the EC address port. Please update your kernel
504 configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
505
506 20071028:
507 The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.
508 You need to update any custom kernel configuration file you have
509 to remove any references to pccons (which includes removing the
510 now useless XSERVER option) and replace them with the correct
511 entries for the wscons driver. See the GENERIC configuration file
512 for more details.
513
514 20070913:
515 A latent bug in dhclient/dhcpd that caused it to be unable to
516 enumerate interfaces was fixed. The bug began to cause
517 problems after 20070911 when the kernel's SIOCGIFCONF
518 implementation was repaired. From 20070529 to 20070911 racoon
519 could not enumerate interfaces. (These are noted because
520 normal kernel/userspace version matching hygiene is not
521 sufficient to avoid this problem.) Ensure that both kernel
522 and userland are from after 20070913.
523
524 20070703:
525 nbinstall has been renamed ${MACHINE_GNU_ARCH}-install. It
526 calls the target-specific strip program, and the logic to pass
527 down STRIP from make has been removed. This requires a
528 re-installation of tools.
529
530 20070422:
531 The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
532 has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
533 to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
534 root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
535 root file system will be relative to that file system - unless they
536 start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
537 that has such links.
538 This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
539 the emulated root.
540
541 20070412:
542 The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
543 instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
544 example.
545
546 20070319:
547 src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
548 on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
549 updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
550 cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
551 rebuild of object files that might have been built
552 incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
553 src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
554
555 20070210:
556 src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
557 find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
558 | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
559 will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
560
561 20070209:
562 The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
563 was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
564 kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
565 library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
566 an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
567 (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
568 the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
569 continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
570 is the only threaded application in the base system.
571
572 20061214:
573 Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
574 from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
575 will need to do a "make cleandir" in
576 tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
577 bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
578 usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
579 as the installation images in distrib/
580 in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
581 file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
582
583 20061108:
584 The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
585 changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
586 does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
587 make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
588
589 20061009:
590 The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
591 available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
592
593 20060814:
594 The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
595 withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
596 kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
597 few years should cope.
598
599 20060703:
600 MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
601 if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
602 to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
603
604 20060627:
605 socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
606 For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
607 your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
608 errors will result.
609
610 Hints for a more successful build:
611 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
612 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
613 This will automatically build the tools in the
614 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
615 new build products from interfering with the running
616 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
617 other advice in this file.
618 Build a new kernel first:
619 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
620 expected by the new userland will be present. This
621 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
622 Use object directories:
623 This helps to keep stale object
624 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
625 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
626 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
627 same source tree for multiple machines.
628 To use object directories with build.sh:
629 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
630 To use object directories without using build.sh:
631 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
632 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
633 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
634 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
635 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
636 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
637 Build to a DESTDIR:
638 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
639 from interfering with the new build.
640 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
641 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
642 environment variable before running make build. It should be
643 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
644 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
645 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
646 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
647 (See critical utils, below.)
648 Build often:
649 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
650 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
651 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
652 this problem.
653
654 What to do if things don't work:
655 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
656 When things don't work there are usually a few things that commonly
657 should be done.
658 1) make includes
659 This should be done automatically by make build.
660 2) cd share/mk && make install
661 Again, automatically done by make build.
662
663 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
664 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
665 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
666 something like the following:
667 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
668 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
669 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
670 3) cd ...path/to/util...
671 make cleandir
672 rm ...all obj directories...
673 make cleandir # yes, again
674 make obj
675 make depend && make
676
677 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
678 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
679 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
680 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
681 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
682 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
683
684 ---cut here---
685 #!/bin/sh
686 . /etc/mk.conf
687
688 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
689 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
690 fi
691 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
692 echo Unable to find sources
693 exit 1
694 fi
695 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
696
697 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
698 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
699 fi
700 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
701 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
702 fi
703
704 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
705
706 ---cut here---
707
708 Critical utilities:
709 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
710 usr.bin/compile_et
711 usr.bin/make
712 usr.bin/yacc
713 usr.bin/lex
714 usr.bin/xlint
715 usr.bin/config
716
717 Other problems and possible solutions:
718 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
719 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
720 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
721 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
722 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
723 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
724
725 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
726 cd share/mk && make install
727
728 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
729 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
730
731 Symptom:
732 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
733
734 Symptom:
735 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
736
737 Symptom:
738 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
739
740 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
741 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
742 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
743 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
744 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
745
746 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible
747 pointer type
748 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
749
750 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
751 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
752
753 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
754 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
755
756 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
757 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
758
759 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
760 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
761
762 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
763 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
764
765 Symptom:Update build fails in src/tools/gcc complaining that a variable
766 (e.g. CPPFLAGS) has changed since the previous run.
767 Fix: Run "nbmake-${ARCH} clean" in src/tools/gcc or do a clean build.
768
769 Symptom:cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory /cvsroot/src/...:
770 No such file or directory.
771 Cause: If a directory is created by mistake, then it is sometimes
772 deleted from the CVS repository using administrative commands
773 that bypass the normal cvs access controls. If your cvs working tree
774 contains references to a directory that has been deleted on the
775 server in this way, then "cvs update" reports this error.
776 Fix: Recursively delete the affected directory from your working tree
777 and try the update again.
778