Subject: README: UPDATE YOUR COMPILER BEFORE YOUR NEXT BUILD
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 05/03/2002 15:38:11
This message is directed at users of NetBSD/alpha and NetBSD/sparc64.  If
you don't use those ports, then you can ignore this.

Various bits of the kernel were recently changed to test for _LP64 being
defined by the compiler/C preprocessor.  This requires a compiler update,
otherwise your kernel will fail to function properly, or fail to compile
altogether.

What this means is that you should make ABSOLUTELY SURE that you build
a new compiler before the next time you build a kernel after updating
your sources.

You can do this using the "-t" option to build.sh, or by simply letting
build.sh build the entire system for you from scratch, "release-style".

-- 
        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>