Hello once again FreeBSD-stable, While upgrading from FreeBSD 10-STABLE and later updating my FreeBSD 11-STABLE system, I noticed that your build system is pulling headers and libraries from the userland rather than the /usr/src tree. This can't possibly be intended. I kind of figured with recent news of delayed released you might have realized this. After all, _FOR EXAMPLE_ (may not reflect reality), who wants to accidentally include userland's older version of OpenSSL headers and link with userland's older version of OpenSSL?
I can cope with this by manually copying headers from /usr/src/sys/sys and /usr/src/include to their appropriate locations and/or installing the newer library manually and then restarting the build. But others may not be so familiar with FreeBSD. And I did manage to get FreeBSD 11-STABLE up and running just fine eventually. But just a few days ago, I updated SVN to rebuild world and kernel following the news of your delayed release and found libprocstat failing to compile. And it failed to compile because it was including /usr/include/ufs/ufs/extattr.h instead of /usr/src/sys/sys/ufs/ufs/extattr.h. This is very disturbing to me. During the FreeBSD 10 updating phase, I saw way more examples of this with even unresolved reference errors during linking since the build system was trying to link with userland's FreeBSD 10 libraries! I can think of two recurring examples: devctl and procstat. I also noticed your build system liked to now put modules in /boot/modules. I was hacking if_ath and none of my changes were working. Well, it was because kldload was loading the unchanged one in /boot/kernel rather than the one now being installed in /boot/modules. That's a really nasty surprise. I probably spent a couple hours figuring that out :) Best regards, Nathan Lay P.S. FreeBSD 11 is running great! Great job! _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
