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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-04-25 20:11:17 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-04-25 20:11:17 +0000 |
commit | 5cb6295f1e1a8e556d466bedfc35648663c651ae (patch) | |
tree | 986d283bc74a54e3cd77fcfcb7eed5c7b75840bf | |
parent | 942b3c3db77fca77b64bdc7b2724b480f54c5ad5 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-5cb6295f1e1a8e556d466bedfc35648663c651ae.zip FreeBSD-src-5cb6295f1e1a8e556d466bedfc35648663c651ae.tar.gz |
Alphas with libc.so between 2003/03/12 and 2003/03/29 cannot be
upgraded cleanly. Document the reason and possible workarounds.
Requested by: gallatin
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@@ -27,6 +27,21 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW: effects of this bug (hang on boot when starting devd), some allowances are made. +20030329: + Alphas with libc from between 20030312 and 20030329 exhibit + floating point exceptions (FPEs), most notably in awk(1) + while upgrading the system through a buildworld. + + So, to successfully upgrade your Alpha, you must either + downgrade your libc.so to a pre-20030312 version, or update + /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk to revision 1.26 which adds -mieee + to CFLAGS, then forcibly rebuild and install libc: + + cd /usr/src/lib/libc && \ + make cleandir && make obj && \ + make -DNOMAN -DNOPROFILE all && \ + make -DNOMAN -DNOPROFILE install + 20030208: sendmail 8.12.7 has been imported. It has one important change for IPv6 users. The default submit.mc now uses |