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authorWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2003-05-04 06:26:30 +0000
committerWarner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>2003-05-04 06:26:30 +0000
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Document a workaround for getting past the groff infinite loop problem
when your userland is older tahn your kernel and Makefile.inc1 therefore thinks that you don't need to rebuild groff, when in fact you do. This workaround is to set OSRELDATE to 500110 before building, but only if you have a new enough Makefile.inc1. I've confirmed this on my laptop, which was suffering from this problem. Since it only hits power users, we'll naively assume that such users are smart enough to read UPDATING.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=114647
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@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
developers choose to disable these features on build machines
to maximize performance.
+20030502:
+ groff has been updated. If you try to do a buildworld and
+ get an infinite loop in troff, update to May 4th or newer. If you
+ have a newer kernel than userland, you may need to set the OSRELDATE
+ to 500110 in your environment before starting a buildworld.
+
20030501:
The old rc system has been removed. Please report any problems
to freebsd-rc@yahoogroups.com, and/or freebsd-current@freebsd.org.
@@ -25,7 +31,6 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT 5.0-CURRENT IS SLOW:
especially when using mergemaster, since the compatibility code that
utilizes these old scripts has also been removed.
-
20030423:
A bug has been fixed in /dev/devctl which would cause devd
to hang on boot, were it not for a workaround in devd. The