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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 619990413: 7 Note cc -aout has been broken since the conversion to egcs. If 8 you have rebuilt things like XFree86 a.out libraries, you should 9 rebuild them again or things (including netscape) will not work. 10 1119990409: 12 NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 13 the old compiler and vice versa. 14 1519990408: 16 In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 17 of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 18 of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 19 -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 20 21 c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 22 changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 23 working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 24 compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 25 undefined. 26 27 cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 28 would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 29 cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 30 make clean 31 make all 32 make install 33 and this should correct your problems. See the -current 34 archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 35 36 Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 37 I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 38 3919990329: 40 Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 41 the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 42 build them. 43 4419990316: 45 The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 46 been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 47 "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 48 4919990314: 50 For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 51 please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 52 -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 53 be fixed in the future. 54 5519990309: 56 New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 57 details. 58 5919990225: 60 struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 61 usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 62 6319990214: 64 The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 65 See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 66 for proper configuration details. 67 6819990210: 69 The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 70 driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 71 7219990209: 73 New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 74 iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 75 make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 76 ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 77 7819990125: 79 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 80 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 81 is in order (or better yet a make world). 82 8319990122: 84 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 85 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 86 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 87 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 88 8919990121: 90 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 91 updates, please see 92 93http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 94 95 for details. 96 97 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 98 information please see 99 100http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 101 or 102http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 103 104 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 105 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 106 10719990120: 108 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 109 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 110 11119990119: 112 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 113 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 114 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 115 config file changes are needed. 116 11719990111: 118 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 119 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 120 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 121 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 122 The instruction can be found in 123 124 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 125 126 It has notes on splash screen too. 127 12819990106: 129 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 130 install the new bootblocks: 131 132 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 133 134 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 135 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 136 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 137 messages about being unable to find library files. The 138 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 139 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 140 recommended. 141 14219990104: 143 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 144 145 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 146 147 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 148 for doing the upgrade. 149 15019981230: 151 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 152 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 153 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 154 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 155 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 156 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 157 for more details. 158 15919981224: 160 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 161 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 162 this in your configuration files. 163 164 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 165 configured" at boot time. 166 167 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 168 with no replacement driver. 169 17019981202: 171 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 172 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 173 17419981201: 175 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 176 src/etc/group: 177 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 178 bind:*:53: 179 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 180 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 181 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 182 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 183 18419981118: 185 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 186 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 187 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 188 189This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 190breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 191and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 192version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 193 194Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 195the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 196 197$Id: UPDATING,v 1.27 1999/04/12 16:22:15 max Exp $ 198