UPDATING revision 1.289 1 $NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.289 2017/12/26 20:04:03 christos 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.
18
19 Recent changes:
20 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
21
22 20171225:
23 removal of the vadvise syscall requires manual removal of all
24 associated files from the libc build object directory (including
25 the .depend files) - a command like:
26 cd $OBJ && find . -type d -name libc | xargs rm -rf
27 For architectures that support multiple "compat" binary targets,
28 you'll need to cleanup both the regular libc directory and the
29 compat one.
30
31 20171010:
32 a change to the build structure of external/bsd/acpica/bin/iasl
33 means that its objdir (or *.d and .depend at least) might need
34 to be manually removed - or a build done once without -u.
35
36 20170822:
37 a new version of GMP has been imported and probably
38 will break parts of builds related to themselves or GCC, both
39 in the tools and the native section. Remove all GCC, GMP, MPFR
40 and MPC objdirs or build once without -u.
41
42 20170816:
43 a new version of MPFR and MPC have been imported and probably
44 will break parts of builds related to themselves or GCC, both
45 in the tools and the native section. Remove all GCC, GMP, MPFR
46 and MPC objdirs or build once without -u.
47
48 20170402:
49 a new version of dhcpcd has been imported, which does not support
50 update builds from the previous version. Remove your
51 external/bsd/dhcpcd object dir or build once without -u.
52
53 20170211:
54 a new terminfo database has been imported.
55 The structure of it has changed slightly from prior versions and
56 an updated tic tool is required.
57 If you build.sh, don't use -u
58
59 20170207:
60 various arch dependent libc/exect.S files were removed
61 Either remove the obj directories (lib/libc and compat/amd64/i386/lib
62 if it exists) or do a clean build.
63 (This is a bug in the make system, it should be corrected without
64 human intervention, but isn't.)
65
66 20170104:
67 xinput build options have changed.
68 Remove the obj directory (external/mit/xorg/bin/xinput)
69 if you build.sh -u
70
71 20170103:
72 a new version of flex has been imported.
73 Remove the file from obj (external/bsd/flex)
74 if you build.sh -u
75
76 20161014:
77 a new version of OpenSSL has been imported.
78 Remove the files from obj (crypto/external/bsd/openssl)
79 if you build.sh -u
80
81 20161009:
82 a new version of dhcpcd has been imported with slightly changed
83 build infrastructure. When doing a build.sh -u this requires
84 pruning the external/bsd/dhcpcd objdir.
85
86 20160914:
87 i386, amd64, shark, ofppc and macppc have joined shark and x68k
88 ports in using xorg-server 1.18. This requires a clean destdir
89 and a clean objdir.
90
91 20160527:
92 i386 needs a full cleandir or objdir deletion because PIE has
93 been enabled. (see the amd64 entry two down for further info)
94
95 20160418:
96 libedit needs manual removal of all autogenerated files since
97 some of them are not autogenerated anymore. Remember that there
98 might be two copies of libedit if your platform builds "compat".
99
100 20160410:
101 amd64 needs full "make cleandir" or deletion of objdir now that
102 PIE has been enabled for amd64. PIE, or position-independent
103 executables, means all code, including executables and not just
104 shared libraries, is position-independent and hence able to be
105 relocated by ASLR, address space layout randomization.
106
107 The change was made in Makefile variables for compiler and
108 linker flags, for which make(1) does not record dependencies,
109 hence it is unable to detect that all .o files need rebuilding.
110
111 Partial rebuilds with some modified source files will likely
112 fail when linking executables, since the linker refuses to mix
113 position-independent code with position-dependent code in
114 position-independent executables:
115
116 .../x86_64--netbsd/bin/ld: foo.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `...' cannot be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
117
118 20160401:
119 Ports switching to GCC 5.3 will need a full "make cleandir".
120 Some people have found that cleandir is not sufficient, so if
121 in doubt delete the entire object directory tree for gcc.
122
123 20160306:
124 NetBSD's regexp implementation is now part of libnbcompat.
125 Nblex, nbm4, nbpax, nbsed use it and they may crash on
126 non-NetBSD hosts if linked with stale object files produced
127 while they included a non-NetBSD regex.h.
128 In any case, you should "make cleandir" at least these tools
129 before updating your toolchain.
130
131 20160125:
132 Dtrace has been enabled by default on some architectures.
133 When doing an update build, make sure to clean the etc/mtree
134 object directory before starting the build - otherwise the
135 needed directories in destdir will not be created.
136 An easy way to do this is:
137 cd src/etc/mtree && $TOOLDIR/bin/nbmake-$arch cleandir
138
139 20150818:
140 New acpica requires "make cleandir" in src/external/bsd/acpica
141 again.
142
143 20150413:
144 New acpica requires "make cleandir" and reinstalling yacc
145 in /usr/src/external/bsd/byacc and /usr/src/tools/yacc and
146 also "make cleandir" in /usr/src/external/bsd/acpica.
147
148 20150404:
149 Lint changes require a full rebuild of the tool, so make
150 sure to build without -u option to build.sh, or manually
151 do a make cleandir in src/tools/lint1 and
152 src/usr.bin/xlint.
153
154 20150310:
155 Improvements to openssl for arm mean that update builds of
156 the openssl libraries will fail. A make cleandir in
157 external/bsd/openssl/lib is needed
158
159 20141026:
160 A mishap during the import of pppd may cause your corruption
161 in your cvs directory if you happened to do a cvs update
162 during a short period of time. To fix, just remove the
163 directory src/external/bsd/ppp/dist/pppd completely
164 and let cvs restore it on next update.
165
166 20140721:
167 The src/external/mit/lua/src directory was accidentally created
168 and then deleted in the CVS repository. If you get errors like
169
170 cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory
171 /cvsroot/src/external/mit/lua/src: No such file or directory
172
173 then delete your local copy of that directory tree and try again.
174
175 20140530:
176 ARM eABI switched to DWARF based exception handling. This requires
177 rebuilding all C++ code. It is strongly advised to do a clean build.
178
179 20140131:
180 The new compiler_rt/libc integration moved a few things. It is strongly
181 advised to do a clean build. At least lib/libc, the compat version(s)
182 of libc, libkern, rump and the kernels need to be cleaned.
183
184 20131227:
185 1. The new ntpd runs in a restricted mode to prevent amplification
186 attacks. If you need ntpdc to work you need to explicitly enable
187 mode7 in your config file. Make sure you put the necessary restrict
188 statements to avoid being exposed.
189 2. strncat has moved from lib/libc to common/lib/libc; you might need
190 to make clean in libc
191
192 20131129:
193 The GMP sources were updated, and builds will likely fail without
194 cleaning their build trees for both tools and in-tree, like below.
195
196 20131128:
197 The MPC and MPFR sources were updated, and builds may require their
198 tools and in-tree directories cleaned for successful updates.
199
200 20130605:
201 The kernel option FAST_IPSEC no longer exists, it's been renamed
202 to IPSEC (and the older IPSEC version removed).
203
204 20130605:
205 Previous freetype installations eroneously installed private
206 header files. If you are building against a non-empty $DESTDIR,
207 please remove ${DESTDIR}//usr/X11R7/include/freetype2/freetype/.
208
209 20130531:
210 The xdm update may cause build failure due to xdm.man being
211 in the obj tree. Make sure to ensure any like this:
212 nbmake: nbmake: don't know how to make xdm.man. Stop
213 is fixed by deleting the xdm.man in the obj tree.
214
215 20130530:
216 Updates of many xsrc packages will leave old .pc files around.
217 Best to clean out the xsrc objdir entirely before rebuilds.
218
219 20130301:
220 The removal of netiso requires manual removal of /usr/include/netiso
221 prior to the build and make cleandir in /usr/src/usr.bin/{ktruss,kdump}
222
223 20120726:
224 The update of OpenSSL requires cleaning both the OpenSSL build
225 directory and DESTDIR. *Even non-update builds require cleaning
226 DESTDIR.* Builds done without taking these steps may fail, or in
227 some cases may succeed and install broken OpenSSL libraries that
228 cause third-party software to link incorrectly and/or crash.
229
230 20120507:
231 The database schema for makemandb was changed. You will
232 need to update the database using 'makemandb -f' or wait
233 for the next weekly run to fix it.
234
235 20120319:
236 sys/conf/Makefile.kern.inc has been modified to adjust the
237 size of db_symtab automatically. You need to update dbsym in
238 your $TOOLDIR to build kernels with options SYMTAB_SPACE. If
239 you don't want this behavior, add AUTO_SYMTAB_SPACE=no to your
240 mk.conf.
241
242 20120216:
243 Default for MKCATPAGES changed to NO. Update builds will fail
244 unless DESTDIR is cleaned manually. If you built between 20120207
245 and 20120216, daily and weekly could have created an unreadable
246 /var/db/man.db index for apropos. Running makemandb -f or
247 the next run of weekly will fix it.
248
249 20111227:
250 If you built between 20111225 and 20111227 you need to remove
251 /usr/lib/libpam.so.4* and /usr/lib/security/*.so.4, since the
252 bump has been reverted.
253
254 20111125:
255 The "rnd" pseudodevice has been added to sys/conf/std, which
256 means it should no longer be explicitly listed in kernel
257 configuration files. The line "pseudo-device rnd" should be
258 removed from any custom kernel config files users may have.
259
260 20111119:
261 A problem with the datastructures used by the rndctl(8)
262 utility (pointers in datastructures in an array, making 32->64
263 bit compatibility very painful) has been fixed in a
264 non-backwards-compatible way. If you replace your kernel,
265 replace your rndctl executable too.
266
267 20111001:
268 the prop_*_send_syscall() functions from proplib(3) have been
269 changed and their new version is not backward compatible with the old
270 one. So ensure that all consumers of these functions (currently:
271 quota2 code and its tests) are updated together with the new lib.
272
273 20110817:
274 sparc has been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any objdir or
275 DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
276
277 20110806:
278 i386 and amd64 have been changed to use GCC 4.5.3, so any
279 objdir or DESTDIR for them should be deleted before updating.
280
281 20110805:
282 The update to GCC 4.5.3 requires a non-trivial portion of
283 the tree to be cleaned. Best to delete both objdir and
284 DESTDIR before running this update. So far, only the
285 sparc64, mips and powerpc platforms have changed.
286
287 20110803:
288 The layout of external/public-domain/xz has changed. To do an
289 update build you will have to remove the contents of the OBJDIR
290 for external/public-domain/xz/bin by hand as the xz entry there
291 is now a directory.
292
293 20110410:
294 The configuration of src/tools/gcc has changed. To do an
295 update build you have to clean both tools/binutils and
296 tools/gcc by hand.
297
298 20110328:
299 Building the Xorg binary was moved into a subdirectory to fix
300 ordering issues with "make all". It may be necessary to remove
301 the OBJDIR for external/mit/xorg/server/xorg-server/hw/xfree86
302 if your update build fails, as the "Xorg" entry there is now a
303 directory.
304
305 20110121:
306 Assembler files no longer use -traditional-cpp. This can break
307 the build of individual parts of the tree. This is handled
308 correctly by build.sh. Manual builds have to update /usr/share/mk
309 and re-run config(1) for any kernel configurations as needed.
310
311 20101217:
312 The tcpdump(8) program was changed to drop privileges and chroot(2)
313 by default. It may be necessary to manually update passwd(5) and
314 group(5) in order to make the program work with existing setups.
315
316 20101125:
317 The latest changes to setenv(3) dissallow setting environment
318 variables with names that contain '='. Revision 1.18 of env.c
319 assumed that this was allowed. Installing a new libc with an
320 old copy of /usr/bin/env causes env x=1 printenv | grep x= to
321 break which affects the autoconf tests for dependency finding,
322 so building gcc will end up printing:
323 checking dependency style of gcc... none
324 configure: error: no usable dependency style found
325 Fix it by rebuilding and re-installing env.
326
327 20101119:
328 Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ may cause various build
329 or run-time problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you
330 have any build problems with xsrc, or problems with mismatched
331 versions between xorg-server and drivers.
332
333 20100604:
334 The update of ATF to 0.9 causes old tests written in shell to fail
335 unless they are rebuilt. If you are building with MKUPDATE=yes,
336 you need to clean the src/external/bsd/atf/tests/ and the src/tests/
337 trees by hand.
338
339 20100522:
340 Recent Xorg updates in xsrc/external/mit/ will cause various build
341 problems. Delete your entire DESTDIR and OBJDIR if you have any
342 build problems with xsrc.
343
344 20100522:
345 private section of <ctype.h> was splitted, and now mklocale(1)
346 include ctype_local.h, so you have to make cleandir in tools/mklocale.
347
348 20100520:
349 The location of the xkb compiled descriptions has changed. Please
350 remove usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled from your $DESTDIR.
351
352 20100222:
353 The shared objects file extension has been changed from .so to
354 .pico, in order to avoid conflicts with shared libraries names
355 libXX.so. All now stale regular .so files can be removed from
356 your object directories.
357
358 20100204:
359 The termcap database has been removed from the sources,
360 but has not been marked obsolete so it is not removed
361 from the system when upgrading.
362 As such, you will need to remove them from your object
363 and destination directories.
364
365 20091101:
366 After updating, it may be necessary to make the 'cleandir'
367 target in src/tools/yacc/ and in src/usr.bin/yacc/ before a
368 'build.sh -u tools' or 'build.sh -u distribution'. Ditto
369 src/tools/lex/ and src/usr.bin/lex/.
370
371 20091001:
372 On amd64 you must rebuild tools (to get the new binutils)
373 before building a kernel, or the build fails on cpufunc.S.
374
375 20091001:
376 An error will create a ./usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/xkb
377 symlink, failing the build. Delete the link, and the subdir
378 it is in, and retry your build.
379
380 20090718:
381 libc build changed so that strchr() provides the extra entry
382 point for index(). Update build of libc.a (and libc_pic.a)
383 may fail because the archive contains the unwanted index.o.
384 (Similarly for strrchr() and rindex().)
385
386 20090709:
387 Native Xorg was upgraded again. Builds will probably fail again
388 without a clean objdir, at least for src/external/mit/xorg.
389
390 20090616:
391 Native Xorg was upgraded. Builds will need a clean objdir for
392 src/external/mit/xorg. Upgrading a system from sets will not
393 work properly yet as the /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
394 subdirectory has been changed into a file, and this needs to
395 be manually "rm -r"'ed before installing xbase.tgz.
396
397 20090501:
398 Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this
399 can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people
400 who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you
401 note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a
402 failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools
403 objects and start again.
404
405 20090325:
406 The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires
407 cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them.
408
409 20090126:
410 The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You
411 need to 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory
412 to avoid using the old assembly stub.
413
414 20090202:
415 pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict
416 detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with
417 ``pkg_admin rebuild''.
418
419 20090110:
420 time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade:
421 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install.
422 This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is
423 conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c.
424 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work
425 before installing.
426 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and
427 your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers
428 are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc
429 and libutil, install them and then continue building all the
430 libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once
431 the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build.
432 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings,
433 rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries.
434 Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages
435 that depend on it.
436 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file
437 will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible.
438 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see
439 lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic
440 for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after
441 upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during
442 boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by
443 newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the
444 files manually.
445 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see
446 accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be
447 removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by
448 /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove
449 the file.
450 8. Application software that writes time_t to binary files on
451 disk will break or need attention. Most notably: if you are
452 using PostgreSQL < 8.4, you need to dump your databases,
453 rebuild PostgreSQL with the new time_t, then restore.
454
455 20081219:
456 config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates -
457 swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config
458 (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun
459 config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those
460 kernels.
461
462 20081205:
463 If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and
464 /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc
465 set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds.
466
467 20081122:
468 On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including
469 file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules.
470 Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the
471 following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel:
472
473 - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules
474
475 - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module
476 for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically
477
478 If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of
479 the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary
480 file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file.
481
482 20080827:
483 If you built and installed a libc from sources between
484 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3)
485 which results in false errors reported by lint(1).
486 Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is
487 needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.:
488 $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install)
489
490 20080813:
491 MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know
492 about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild.
493
494 20080802:
495 A regression in binary compatibility for pthread_mutex_t has
496 been fixed. Unfortunately, the price is breaking compatibility
497 for -current.
498
499 Threaded programs (using libpthread) and C++ programs (using
500 libstdc++) compiled after 20070907 and before 20080802 need to
501 be recompiled.
502
503 One way to find affected pkgsrc packages:
504
505 $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libpthread /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
506 $ grep REQUIRES=/usr/lib/libstdc++ /var/db/pkg/*/+BUILD_INFO
507
508 20080731:
509 WAPBL (metadata journaling support) has been added, but at this
510 time isn't backwards compatible with pre-WAPBL aware kernels
511 and userland (fsck_ffs in particular). Please make sure you
512 don't use a journaled filesystem with an older kernel/userland,
513 especially an uncleanly mounted journaled filesystem. WAPBL
514 also requires the super block to be in the UFS2 format. You
515 can use fsck_ffs -c 4 to update the superblock format.
516
517 20080721:
518 Assembler warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0 and $NOGCCERROR
519 isn't defined.
520
521 20080531:
522 The ioctl number of DRVSUSPENDDEV command on /dev/drvctl changed
523 from 125 (conflicted with DRVCTLCOMMAND) to 129. The drvctl(8)
524 utility needs to be rebuilt and reinstalled as older binaries
525 won't work correctly. The following sequence of commands:
526
527 $ (cd sys/sys/ && nbmake-$arch includes)
528 $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch clean)
529 $ (cd sbin/drvctl/ && nbmake-$arch all)
530
531 leaves new drvctl utility in sbin/drvctl build directory.
532
533 20080503:
534 The <bsd.lib.mk> variable MKPRIVATELIB was renamed to LIBISPRIVATE.
535
536 20080521:
537 For a while, unprivileged UPDATE builds would fail to
538 succeed at the checkflist stage, complaining that
539 ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>/ did not exist. A fix for this
540 problem was committed to share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk, revision 1.9.
541 If you already hit this problem, update the .mk file,
542 remove ${DESTDIR}/stand/<arch>, and re-run the build.
543
544 20080303:
545 Linker warnings are now fatal if $WARNS>0.
546
547 20080126:
548 The posix_fadvise system call has been changed from an assembly
549 stub, to a c file that calls an assembly stub. You need to
550 'rm -f posix_fadvise.* .depend' in the libc build directory to
551 avoid using the old assembly stub.
552
553 20071209:
554 The acpiec(4) driver has been split into two attachments. If you
555 get ACPI errors before the attachment, please update your kernel
556 configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
557
558 20071115:
559 The it(4) driver has been renamed to itesio(4) and the old port
560 argument specified in the kernel configuration file is not valid
561 anymore. The itesio(4) driver now uses the Super I/O address port
562 rather than the EC address port. Please update your kernel
563 configuration file appropriately or see GENERIC for more details.
564
565 20071028:
566 The pccons(4) driver has been removed from the NetBSD/shark port.
567 You need to update any custom kernel configuration file you have
568 to remove any references to pccons (which includes removing the
569 now useless XSERVER option) and replace them with the correct
570 entries for the wscons driver. See the GENERIC configuration file
571 for more details.
572
573 20070913:
574 A latent bug in dhclient/dhcpd that caused it to be unable to
575 enumerate interfaces was fixed. The bug began to cause
576 problems after 20070911 when the kernel's SIOCGIFCONF
577 implementation was repaired. From 20070529 to 20070911 racoon
578 could not enumerate interfaces. (These are noted because
579 normal kernel/userspace version matching hygiene is not
580 sufficient to avoid this problem.) Ensure that both kernel
581 and userland are from after 20070913.
582
583 20070703:
584 nbinstall has been renamed ${MACHINE_GNU_ARCH}-install. It
585 calls the target-specific strip program, and the logic to pass
586 down STRIP from make has been removed. This requires a
587 re-installation of tools.
588
589 20070422:
590 The way OS emulations lookup filenames inside the emulation root
591 has been changed. Rather than modify the pathname (and copy back
592 to userspace) namei() and lookup() directly check the emulation
593 root. One side effect is that absolute symlinks inside the emulated
594 root file system will be relative to that file system - unless they
595 start /../ this is useful when the emulated root is a real install
596 that has such links.
597 This might affect symlinks that have been added to reference outside
598 the emulated root.
599
600 20070412:
601 The pckbc driver on sgimips IP32 has been removed. Use macekbc
602 instead. See the GENERIC32_IP3x kernel configuration for an
603 example.
604
605 20070319:
606 src/lib/libc/Makefile revision 1.129 broke libc and ld.elf_so
607 on many platforms due to incorrect flags settings. If you
608 updated and built after about 20070315, do "nbmake-$arch
609 cleandir" in src/lib/libc and src/libexec/ld.elf_so to force a
610 rebuild of object files that might have been built
611 incorrectly, and ensure that you have at least
612 src/lib/libc/Makefile 1.130.
613
614 20070210:
615 src/sys/sys/{sa.h,savar.h} were removed.
616 find ${OBJDIR} \( -name .depend -o -name '*.d' \) -print \
617 | xargs egrep -l '/sa.h|/savar.h' | xargs rm
618 will allow dependencies on those files to get get rebuilt
619
620 20070209:
621 The threading model was changed when the newlock2 branch
622 was merged to NetBSD-current. If you boot with a new
623 kernel (version 4.99.10), then you also need a new pthread
624 library (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.7). If you boot with
625 an old kernel, then you need the old pthread library
626 (/usr/lib/libpthread.so.0.6). Provided you keep the kernel and
627 the pthread library in sync, old threaded applications should
628 continue to work with an old or new kernel. Note that named(8)
629 is the only threaded application in the base system.
630
631 20061214:
632 Following the move of string_to_flags() and flags_to_string()
633 from the bin/ls/ sources to libutil, users doing UPDATE builds
634 will need to do a "make cleandir" in
635 tools/mtree/, tools/makefs/, tools/binstall/, tools/pax/,
636 bin/pax/, bin/ls/, usr.sbin/mtree/, usr.sbin/makefs/,
637 usr.bin/xinstall/, libexec/ftpd/, rescue/, as well
638 as the installation images in distrib/
639 in order to excise stale references to the old stat_flags.h header
640 file in the ls sources -- stat_flags.h has been removed.
641
642 20061108:
643 The configure script used in the src/tools/gcc compiler has been
644 changed to indicate that our libc has ssp support built-in and
645 does not depend on -lssp and -lssp-nonshared. You'll need to
646 make clean in src/tools/gcc first to rebuild the compiler.
647
648 20061009:
649 The sysctl variables net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.newreno are no longer
650 available. Use net.inet{,6}.tcp{,6}.congctl.selected instead.
651
652 20060814:
653 The vt, vidcconsole, kbd, and rpckbd drivers on acorn32 have been
654 withdrawn. Use vidcvideo and pckbd instead. See the GENERIC
655 kernel configuration for an example. X servers from the last
656 few years should cope.
657
658 20060703:
659 MPACPI is no more. We always configure PCI interrupts using ACPI
660 if we have an ACPI kernel. The option MPACPI_SCANPCI has been renamed
661 to ACPI_SCANPCI. Thanks to work from fvdl.
662
663 20060627:
664 socket(2) has changed, and its system call has been versioned.
665 For userlands with the old version of socket(2), make sure that
666 your kernel has 'options COMPAT_30' set, or else 'bad system call'
667 errors will result.
668
669 Hints for a more successful build:
670 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
671 Use build.sh, but do not use its "expert mode":
672 This will automatically build the tools in the
673 correct order, and it will keep the tools and the
674 new build products from interfering with the running
675 system. This will allow you to ignore most of the
676 other advice in this file.
677 Build a new kernel first:
678 This makes sure that any new system calls or features
679 expected by the new userland will be present. This
680 helps to avoid critical errors when upgrading.
681 Use object directories:
682 This helps to keep stale object
683 files from polluting the build if a Makefile "forgets"
684 about one. It also makes it easier to clean up after
685 a build. It's also necessary if you want to use the
686 same source tree for multiple machines.
687 To use object directories with build.sh:
688 a) invoke build.sh with the "-M" or "-O" options.
689 To use object directories without using build.sh:
690 a) cd /usr/src ; make cleandir
691 b) Add "OBJMACHINE=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
692 c) Add "MKOBJDIRS=yes" to /etc/mk.conf
693 d) cd /usr/src ; make build
694 Note that running "make obj" in a directory will create
695 in obj.$MACHINE directory.
696 Build to a DESTDIR:
697 This helps to keep old installed files (especially libraries)
698 from interfering with the new build.
699 To build to a DESTDIR with build.sh, use the "-D" option.
700 To build to a DESTDIR without using build.sh, set the DESTDIR
701 environment variable before running make build. It should be
702 set to the pathname of an initially empty directory.
703 Problems: if you do not use build.sh, you might need to
704 update critical utilities without using DESTDIR since
705 nothing is executed from what is installed in DESTDIR.
706 (See critical utils, below.)
707 Build often:
708 This keeps critical utilities current enough to not choke
709 on any other part of the source tree that depends on up to
710 date functionality. If you use build.sh, you should not have
711 this problem.
712
713 What to do if things don't work:
714 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
715 When things don't work there are usually a few things that commonly
716 should be done.
717 1) make includes
718 This should be done automatically by make build.
719 2) cd share/mk && make install
720 Again, automatically done by make build.
721
722 Failsafe rebuild of a small part of the tree:
723 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
724 To make sure you rebuild something correctly you want to do
725 something like the following:
726 1) Make sure the includes and .mk files are up to date.
727 2) Make sure any program used to build the particular
728 utility is up to date. (yacc, lex, etc...)
729 3) cd ...path/to/util...
730 make cleandir
731 rm ...all obj directories...
732 make cleandir # yes, again
733 make obj
734 make depend && make
735
736 Failsafe rebuild of the entire tree:
737 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
738 If you really want to make sure the source tree is clean and
739 ready for a build try the following. Note that sourcing /etc/mk.conf
740 (a make(1) Makefile) in this manner is not right, and will not work
741 for anyone who uses any make(1) features in /etc/mk.conf.
742
743 ---cut here---
744 #!/bin/sh
745 . /etc/mk.conf
746
747 if [ -z $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
748 NETBSDSRCDIR=/usr/src
749 fi
750 if [ \! -d $NETBSDSRCDIR ] ; then
751 echo Unable to find sources
752 exit 1
753 fi
754 find $NETBSDSRCDIR -name \*.o -o -name obj.\* -o -name obj -exec rm \{\} \;
755
756 if [ -z $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
757 BSDOBJDIR=/usr/obj
758 fi
759 if [ -d $BSDOBJDIR ] ; then
760 rm -rf $BSDOBJDIR
761 fi
762
763 cd $NETBSDSRCDIR && make cleandir
764
765 ---cut here---
766
767 Critical utilities:
768 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
769 usr.bin/compile_et
770 usr.bin/make
771 usr.bin/yacc
772 usr.bin/lex
773 usr.bin/xlint
774 usr.bin/config
775
776 Other problems and possible solutions:
777 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
778 Symptom:Complaints involving a Makefile.
779 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/make:
780 cd usr.bin/make && make && make install
781 Or, a failsafe method if that doesn't work:
782 cd usr.bin/make && cc *.c */*.c -I . -o make && mv make /usr/bin
783
784 Fix: Make sure .mk files are up to date.
785 cd share/mk && make install
786
787 Symptom:Kernel `config' fails to configure any kernel, including GENERIC.
788 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/config
789
790 Symptom:
791 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/yacc
792
793 Symptom:
794 Fix: Rebuild usr.bin/lex
795
796 Symptom:
797 Fix: rm /usr/lib/libbfd.a
798
799 Symptom:Obsolete intermediate files are used during compilation
800 Fix: Try the following sequence of commands in the directory in question.
801 make cleandir; rm `make print-objdir`; make cleandir; make obj
802 (If you built the tree without "make obj" in the past, obsolete files
803 may remain. The command tries to clean everything up)
804
805 Symptom:.../sysinst/run.c:xx: warning: initialization from incompatible
806 pointer type
807 Fix: Rebuild and install usr.bin/menuc
808
809 Symptom:mklocale not found during build in share/locale/ctype
810 Fix: Build and install usr.bin/mklocale
811
812 Symptom:undefined reference to `__assert13' or `__unsetenv13'
813 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
814
815 Symptom:usr.bin/config fails to build.
816 Fix: Try building with -DMAKE_BOOTSTRAP added to CFLAGS in Makefile.
817
818 Symptom:undefined reference to `getprogname' or `setprogname'
819 Fix: Rebuild and install lib/libc
820
821 Symptom:lint does not understand the '-X' option
822 Fix: May need to build & install libs with NOLINT=1 before rebuilding lint
823
824 Symptom:Update build fails in src/tools/gcc complaining that a variable
825 (e.g. CPPFLAGS) has changed since the previous run.
826 Fix: Run "nbmake-${ARCH} clean" in src/tools/gcc or do a clean build.
827
828 Symptom:cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory /cvsroot/src/...:
829 No such file or directory.
830 Cause: If a directory is created by mistake, then it is sometimes
831 deleted from the CVS repository using administrative commands
832 that bypass the normal cvs access controls. If your cvs working tree
833 contains references to a directory that has been deleted on the
834 server in this way, then "cvs update" reports this error.
835 Fix: Recursively delete the affected directory from your working tree
836 and try the update again.
837