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1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users 2 3This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4to him. See end of file for further details. 5 61990408: 7 In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 8 of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 9 of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 10 -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 11 12 c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 13 changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 14 working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 15 compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 16 undefined. 17 18 cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 19 would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 20 cd src/sys/gnu/usr.bin/cc 21 make clean 22 make all 23 make install 24 and this should correct your problems. See the -current 25 archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 26 27 Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 28 I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 29 3019990329: 31 Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 32 the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 33 build them. 34 3519990316: 36 The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 37 been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 38 "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 39 4019990314: 41 For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 42 please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 43 -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 44 be fixed in the future. 45 4619990309: 47 New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 48 details. 49 5019990225: 51 struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 52 usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 53 5419990214: 55 The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 56 See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 57 for proper configuration details. 58 5919990210: 60 The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 61 driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 62 6319990209: 64 New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 65 iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 66 make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 67 ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 68 6919990125: 70 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 71 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 72 is in order (or better yet a make world). 73 7419990122: 75 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 76 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 77 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 78 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 79 8019990121: 81 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 82 updates, please see 83 84http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 85 86 for details. 87 88 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 89 information please see 90 91http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 92 or 93http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 94 95 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 96 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 97 9819990120: 99 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 100 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 101 10219990119: 103 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 104 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 105 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 106 config file changes are needed. 107 10819990111: 109 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 110 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 111 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 112 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 113 The instruction can be found in 114 115 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 116 117 It has notes on splash screen too. 118 11919990106: 120 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 121 install the new bootblocks: 122 123 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 124 125 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 126 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 127 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 128 messages about being unable to find library files. The 129 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 130 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 131 recommended. 132 13319990104: 134 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 135 136 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 137 138 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 139 for doing the upgrade. 140 14119981230: 142 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 143 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 144 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 145 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 146 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 147 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 148 for more details. 149 15019981224: 151 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 152 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 153 this in your configuration files. 154 155 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 156 configured" at boot time. 157 158 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 159 with no replacement driver. 160 16119981202: 162 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 163 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 164 16519981201: 166 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 167 src/etc/group: 168 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 169 bind:*:53: 170 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 171 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 172 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 173 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 174 17519981118: 176 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 177 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 178 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 179 180This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 181breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 182and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 183version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 184 185Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 186the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 187 188$Id: UPDATING,v 1.24 1999/04/09 06:17:37 imp Exp $ 189