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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 3019990316: 31 The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 32 been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 33 "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 34 3519990314: 36 For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 37 please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 38 -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 39 be fixed in the future. 40 4119990309: 42 New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 43 details. 44 4519990225: 46 struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 47 usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 48 4919990214: 50 The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 51 See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 52 for proper configuration details. 53 5419990210: 55 The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 56 driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 57 5819990209: 59 New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 60 iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 61 make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 62 ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 63 6419990125: 65 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 66 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 67 is in order (or better yet a make world). 68 6919990122: 70 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 71 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 72 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 73 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 74 7519990121: 76 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 77 updates, please see 78 79http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 80 81 for details. 82 83 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 84 information please see 85 86http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 87 or 88http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 89 90 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 91 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 92 9319990120: 94 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 95 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 96 9719990119: 98 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 99 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 100 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 101 config file changes are needed. 102 10319990111: 104 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 105 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 106 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 107 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 108 The instruction can be found in 109 110 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 111 112 It has notes on splash screen too. 113 11419990106: 115 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 116 install the new bootblocks: 117 118 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 119 120 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 121 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 122 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 123 messages about being unable to find library files. The 124 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 125 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 126 recommended. 127 12819990104: 129 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 130 131 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 132 133 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 134 for doing the upgrade. 135 13619981230: 137 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 138 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 139 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 140 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 141 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 142 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 143 for more details. 144 14519981224: 146 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 147 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 148 this in your configuration files. 149 150 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 151 configured" at boot time. 152 153 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 154 with no replacement driver. 155 15619981202: 157 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 158 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 159 16019981201: 161 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 162 src/etc/group: 163 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 164 bind:*:53: 165 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 166 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 167 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 168 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 169 17019981118: 171 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 172 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 173 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 174 175This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 176breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 177and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 178version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 179 180Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 181the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 182 183$Id: UPDATING,v 1.23 1999/03/18 05:39:45 imp Exp $ 184