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 6d24adca8SWarner Losh19990414: 7d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 8d24adca8SWarner Losh from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 9d24adca8SWarner Losh 10d24adca8SWarner Losh cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 11d24adca8SWarner Losh so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 12d24adca8SWarner Losh 13d5ca0636SWarner Losh19990413: 14d24adca8SWarner Losh Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 15d24adca8SWarner Losh care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 16d24adca8SWarner Losh problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 17d24adca8SWarner Losh reporting the problem with -j). 18d24adca8SWarner Losh 19d24adca8SWarner Losh19990413: 20d24adca8SWarner Losh Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 21d24adca8SWarner Losh egcs, not supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 22d24adca8SWarner Losh XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 23d24adca8SWarner Losh things (including netscape) will not work. 24d5ca0636SWarner Losh 251f692d40SWarner Losh19990409: 261f692d40SWarner Losh NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 271f692d40SWarner Losh the old compiler and vice versa. 281f692d40SWarner Losh 291f692d40SWarner Losh19990408: 3081725689SWarner Losh In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 3181725689SWarner Losh of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 3281725689SWarner Losh of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 3381725689SWarner Losh -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 3481725689SWarner Losh 3581725689SWarner Losh c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 3681725689SWarner Losh changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 3781725689SWarner Losh working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 3881725689SWarner Losh compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 3981725689SWarner Losh undefined. 4081725689SWarner Losh 4181725689SWarner Losh cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 4281725689SWarner Losh would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 43420d4744SMasafumi Max NAKANE cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 4481725689SWarner Losh make clean 4581725689SWarner Losh make all 4681725689SWarner Losh make install 4781725689SWarner Losh and this should correct your problems. See the -current 4881725689SWarner Losh archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 4981725689SWarner Losh 5081725689SWarner Losh Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 5181725689SWarner Losh I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 5281725689SWarner Losh 53ff5e1f79SWarner Losh19990329: 54ff5e1f79SWarner Losh Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 55ff5e1f79SWarner Losh the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 56ff5e1f79SWarner Losh build them. 57ff5e1f79SWarner Losh 58fe9af953SWarner Losh19990316: 59fe9af953SWarner Losh The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 60fe9af953SWarner Losh been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 61fe9af953SWarner Losh "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 62fe9af953SWarner Losh 63fe9af953SWarner Losh19990314: 64fe9af953SWarner Losh For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 65fe9af953SWarner Losh please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 66fe9af953SWarner Losh -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 67fe9af953SWarner Losh be fixed in the future. 68fe9af953SWarner Losh 69ce32355fSWarner Losh19990309: 70fe9af953SWarner Losh New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 71fe9af953SWarner Losh details. 72ce32355fSWarner Losh 73f8c77507SWarner Losh19990225: 74f8c77507SWarner Losh struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 75f8c77507SWarner Losh usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 761fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 770edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214: 780edeb9e7SWarner Losh The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 797dd38e55SWarner Losh See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 807dd38e55SWarner Losh for proper configuration details. 810edeb9e7SWarner Losh 821fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 831fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 840edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 8557199806SWarner Losh 867dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209: 877dd38e55SWarner Losh New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 887dd38e55SWarner Losh iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 897dd38e55SWarner Losh make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 907dd38e55SWarner Losh ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 917dd38e55SWarner Losh 929a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125: 939a3105eeSWarner Losh Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 949a3105eeSWarner Losh the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 959a3105eeSWarner Losh is in order (or better yet a make world). 969a3105eeSWarner Losh 979a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122: 989a3105eeSWarner Losh On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 999a3105eeSWarner Losh blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 1009a3105eeSWarner Losh edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 1019a3105eeSWarner Losh problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 1029a3105eeSWarner Losh 1039a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 1048cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 1058cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 1063652181cSWarner Losh 1078cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 1083652181cSWarner Losh 1098cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 1108cd37f69SWarner Losh 1118cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 1128cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 1133652181cSWarner Losh 1148cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 1158cd37f69SWarner Losh or 1168cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 1173652181cSWarner Losh 1188cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 1198cd37f69SWarner Losh but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 1208cd37f69SWarner Losh 1218cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120: 1228cd37f69SWarner Losh Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 1238cd37f69SWarner Losh branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 1248cd37f69SWarner Losh 125ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119: 126ad56ea87SWarner Losh More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 127ad56ea87SWarner Losh files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 128ad56ea87SWarner Losh and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 129ad56ea87SWarner Losh config file changes are needed. 130ad56ea87SWarner Losh 13157199806SWarner Losh19990111: 132a85c0f55SWarner Losh New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 133a85c0f55SWarner Losh stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 134a85c0f55SWarner Losh update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 135a85c0f55SWarner Losh kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 136a85c0f55SWarner Losh The instruction can be found in 13757199806SWarner Losh 1387dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 13957199806SWarner Losh 140a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 14157199806SWarner Losh 14257199806SWarner Losh19990106: 1439857e582SWarner Losh Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 144db23c94fSWarner Losh install the new bootblocks: 14557199806SWarner Losh 1467dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 14757199806SWarner Losh 1489ba54ae0SWarner Losh When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 1499ba54ae0SWarner Losh /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 1509ba54ae0SWarner Losh elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 1519857e582SWarner Losh messages about being unable to find library files. The 1529857e582SWarner Losh mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 1539857e582SWarner Losh keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 1549857e582SWarner Losh recommended. 15557199806SWarner Losh 15657199806SWarner Losh19990104: 1572c558794SWarner Losh Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 15857199806SWarner Losh 1597dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 16057199806SWarner Losh 1612c558794SWarner Losh about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 1622c558794SWarner Losh for doing the upgrade. 16357199806SWarner Losh 16457199806SWarner Losh19981230: 165d5513f53SWarner Losh You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 166e363c17bSWarner Losh become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 167e363c17bSWarner Losh your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 168e363c17bSWarner Losh make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 169e363c17bSWarner Losh a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 170e363c17bSWarner Losh continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 171e363c17bSWarner Losh for more details. 17257199806SWarner Losh 17357199806SWarner Losh19981224: 174355edc3eSWarner Losh The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 175355edc3eSWarner Losh driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 176355edc3eSWarner Losh this in your configuration files. 17757199806SWarner Losh 178355edc3eSWarner Losh Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 179355edc3eSWarner Losh configured" at boot time. 18057199806SWarner Losh 181355edc3eSWarner Losh The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 182355edc3eSWarner Losh with no replacement driver. 18357199806SWarner Losh 18457199806SWarner Losh19981202: 185ab308df6SWarner Losh New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 186ab308df6SWarner Losh aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 18757199806SWarner Losh 18857199806SWarner Losh19981201: 189ab308df6SWarner Losh New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 190ab308df6SWarner Losh src/etc/group: 191ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 192ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53: 193ab308df6SWarner Losh % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 194ab308df6SWarner Losh tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 195ab308df6SWarner Losh kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 196ab308df6SWarner Losh bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 19757199806SWarner Losh 19857199806SWarner Losh19981118: 19953dfde79SWarner Losh PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 20053dfde79SWarner Losh to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 20153dfde79SWarner Losh See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 20257199806SWarner Losh 2031fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 2041fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 2051fc1a0dcSWarner Loshand it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 2061fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 2071fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 208f8c77507SWarner LoshPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 209f8c77507SWarner Loshthe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 210f8c77507SWarner Losh 211d24adca8SWarner Losh$Id: UPDATING,v 1.28 1999/04/13 06:10:53 imp Exp $ 212