Updating RPI2 from 11-CURRENT to RELENG_11
Toby
misc.lists at fsck.ch
Mon Aug 15 18:44:56 UTC 2016
On 13/08/16 22:37, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Toby <misc.lists at fsck.ch> wrote:
>
> 20160517:
> The armv6 port now defaults to hard float ABI. Limited support
> for running both hardfloat and soft float on the same system
> is available using the libraries installed with -DWITH_LIBSOFT.
> This has only been tested as an upgrade path for installworld
> and packages may fail or need manual intervention to run. New
> packages will be needed.
>
> To update an existing self-hosted armv6hf system, you must add
> TARGET_ARCH=armv6 on the make command line for both the build
> and the install steps
> Short answer is that you'll need to re-install all packages because of this.
> They will work for a while, but as updates happen 'cross threading' can
> occur if the updates are partial unless you specifically do special things.
> Only extreme special needs use cases will be affected (like having only
> binaries linked against the soft float ABI libraries).
>
> Warner
Thanks for the explanation. My buildworld is now done and I'll update
the packages
over the next few days.
Toby
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