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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 619990409: 7 NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 8 the old compiler and vice versa. 9 1019990408: 11 In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 12 of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 13 of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 14 -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 15 16 c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 17 changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 18 working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 19 compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 20 undefined. 21 22 cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 23 would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 24 cd src/sys/gnu/usr.bin/cc 25 make clean 26 make all 27 make install 28 and this should correct your problems. See the -current 29 archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 30 31 Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 32 I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 33 3419990329: 35 Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 36 the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 37 build them. 38 3919990316: 40 The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 41 been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 42 "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 43 4419990314: 45 For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 46 please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 47 -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 48 be fixed in the future. 49 5019990309: 51 New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 52 details. 53 5419990225: 55 struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 56 usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 57 5819990214: 59 The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 60 See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 61 for proper configuration details. 62 6319990210: 64 The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 65 driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 66 6719990209: 68 New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 69 iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 70 make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 71 ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 72 7319990125: 74 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 75 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 76 is in order (or better yet a make world). 77 7819990122: 79 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 80 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 81 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 82 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 83 8419990121: 85 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 86 updates, please see 87 88http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 89 90 for details. 91 92 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 93 information please see 94 95http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 96 or 97http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 98 99 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 100 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 101 10219990120: 103 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 104 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 105 10619990119: 107 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 108 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 109 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 110 config file changes are needed. 111 11219990111: 113 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 114 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 115 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 116 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 117 The instruction can be found in 118 119 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 120 121 It has notes on splash screen too. 122 12319990106: 124 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 125 install the new bootblocks: 126 127 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 128 129 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 130 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 131 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 132 messages about being unable to find library files. The 133 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 134 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 135 recommended. 136 13719990104: 138 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 139 140 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 141 142 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 143 for doing the upgrade. 144 14519981230: 146 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 147 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 148 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 149 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 150 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 151 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 152 for more details. 153 15419981224: 155 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 156 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 157 this in your configuration files. 158 159 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 160 configured" at boot time. 161 162 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 163 with no replacement driver. 164 16519981202: 166 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 167 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 168 16919981201: 170 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 171 src/etc/group: 172 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 173 bind:*:53: 174 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 175 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 176 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 177 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 178 17919981118: 180 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 181 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 182 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 183 184This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 185breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 186and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 187version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 188 189Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 190the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 191 192$Id: UPDATING,v 1.25 1999/04/09 06:31:00 imp Exp $ 193