Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:27:08 +0100 From: Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, dougb@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r199621 - head Message-ID: <3bbf2fe10911230627m5f9cff68n449f587c77e8c2a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091122.183841.222456704.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200911210143.nAL1hMx3062260@svn.freebsd.org> <20091122.183841.222456704.imp@bsdimp.com>
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2009/11/23 M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>: > In message: <200911210143.nAL1hMx3062260@svn.freebsd.org> > Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > : Author: dougb > : Date: Sat Nov 21 01:43:22 2009 > : New Revision: 199621 > : URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/199621 > : > : Log: > : Add a note that wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world build to > : sync up with 20091109. > : > : Modified: > : head/UPDATING > : > : Modified: head/UPDATING > : ============================================================================== > : --- head/UPDATING Sat Nov 21 00:34:51 2009 (r199620) > : +++ head/UPDATING Sat Nov 21 01:43:22 2009 (r199621) > : @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9. > : Applications that require wireless scan results (e.g. ifconfig(8)) > : from net80211 need to be recompiled. > : > : + Applications such as wpa_supplicant(8) may require a full world > : + build without using NO_CLEAN in order to get synchronized with the > : + new structure. > : + > > We should have some general language at the end of UPDATING that can > be invoked for these things. In general, when structure sizes change, > you have to do a fresh, from scratch build. We shouldn't have to > repeat it each time we do one. I'm not sure which commits that refers to, but if __FreeBSD_version wasn't bumped it must had happened, and users should rebuild world/kernel at any __FreeBSD_version bumping. We don't need such comments for any ABI/API/__FreeBSD_version bumping change. Attilio -- Peace can only be achieved by understanding - A. Einstein
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