157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users 253dfde79SWarner Losh 3f8c77507SWarner LoshThis file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4f8c77507SWarner Loshto him. See end of file for further details. 5f8c77507SWarner Losh 61f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 71f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 81f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 91f692d40SWarner Losh 101f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 1181725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 1281725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 1381725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 1481725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 1581725689SWarner Losh 1681725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 1781725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 1881725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 1981725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 2081725689SWarner Losh undefined. 2181725689SWarner Losh 2281725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 2381725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 2481725689SWarner Losh cd src/sys/gnu/usr.bin/cc 2581725689SWarner Losh make clean 2681725689SWarner Losh make all 2781725689SWarner Losh make install 2881725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 2981725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 3081725689SWarner Losh 3181725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 3281725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 3381725689SWarner Losh 34ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 35ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 36ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 37ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 38ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 39fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 40fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 41fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 42fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 43fe9af953SWarner Losh 44fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 45fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 46fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 47fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 48fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 49fe9af953SWarner Losh 50ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 51fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 52fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 53ce32355fSWarner Losh 54f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 55f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 56f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 571fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 580edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 590edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 607dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 617dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 620edeb9e7SWarner Losh 631fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 641fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 650edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 6657199806SWarner Losh 677dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 687dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 697dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 707dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 717dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 727dd38e55SWarner Losh 739a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 749a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 759a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 769a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 779a3105eeSWarner Losh 789a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 799a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 809a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 819a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 829a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 839a3105eeSWarner Losh 849a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 858cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 868cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 873652181cSWarner Losh 888cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 893652181cSWarner Losh 908cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 918cd37f69SWarner Losh 928cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 938cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 943652181cSWarner Losh 958cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 968cd37f69SWarner Losh or 978cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 983652181cSWarner Losh 998cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 1008cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 1018cd37f69SWarner Losh 1028cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 1038cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 1048cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 1058cd37f69SWarner Losh 106ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 107ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 108ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 109ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 110ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 111ad56ea87SWarner Losh 11257199806SWarner Losh19990111: 113a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 114a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 115a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 116a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 117a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 11857199806SWarner Losh 1197dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 12057199806SWarner Losh 121a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 12257199806SWarner Losh 12357199806SWarner Losh19990106: 1249857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 125db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 12657199806SWarner Losh 1277dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 12857199806SWarner Losh 1299ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 1309ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 1319ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 1329857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 1339857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 1349857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 1359857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 13657199806SWarner Losh 13757199806SWarner Losh19990104: 1382c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 13957199806SWarner Losh 1407dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 14157199806SWarner Losh 1422c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 1432c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 14457199806SWarner Losh 14557199806SWarner Losh19981230: 146d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 147e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 148e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 149e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 150e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 151e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 152e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 15357199806SWarner Losh 15457199806SWarner Losh19981224: 155355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 156355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 157355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 15857199806SWarner Losh 159355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 160355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 16157199806SWarner Losh 162355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 163355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 16457199806SWarner Losh 16557199806SWarner Losh19981202: 166ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 167ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 16857199806SWarner Losh 16957199806SWarner Losh19981201: 170ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 171ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 172ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 173ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 174ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 175ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 176ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 177ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 17857199806SWarner Losh 17957199806SWarner Losh19981118: 18053dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 18153dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 18253dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 18357199806SWarner Losh 1841fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 1851fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 1861fc1a0dcSWarner Loshand it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 1871fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 1881fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 189f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 190f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 191f8c77507SWarner Losh 1921f692d40SWarner Losh$Id: UPDATING,v 1.25 1999/04/09 06:31:00 imp Exp $ 193