From 47a657d1b8b4b74108a4279974355d33dbef53ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ruslan Ermilov Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:11:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- UPDATING | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index c5a80354f8e..5311d81b979 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -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