unable to upgrade to 7.1-PRE

[John Scroggins]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 02:20 +0000, John Birrell wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 06:09:43PM -0700, John Scroggins wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have attempted to upgrade to 7.1-Pre with no avail. 
> > My source tree is has been cleaned and /usr/obj is cleared every time
> > the system is rebuilt. I have swapped over the kernel config to the
> > latest Generic and uncommented the dtrace hooks -- but my build
> > continues to fall on its face compiling the dtrace module.
> > 
> > Is there something I'm missing here ? good chance its obvious, but I'm
> > at a loss --- :(
> [...]
> > In file included
> > from /usr/src/sys/modules/dtrace/sdt/../../../cddl/dev/sdt/sdt.c:42:
> > /usr/src/sys/modules/dtrace/sdt/./../../cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/sys/dtrace.h:630:19: warning: "_BIG_ENDIAN" is not defined
> 
> Please check if you have any files in /usr/src/sys/cddl and subdirectories
> which have #undef _BIG_ENDIAN.

thanks for the pointer --- 
i'll post results in a while -- 
(gotta go to work :)) 
> 
> The ZFS port used to do this, but it broke the FreeBSD elf headers which rely on
> both BtIG and LITTLE endian definitions being defined. And that broke the DTrace
> build.
> 
> The current code is _supposed_ to work with the standard endian definitions that
> FreeBSD uses. The fact that your build barfs on a missing _BIG_ENDIAN define is
> an indication that either something hasn't updated correctly in your cvsup or I've
> f'up again (ugh).
> 
> The problem you are seeing has nothing to do with the kernel config. You can have
> KDTRACE_HOOKS in your kernel config or not and the result will be the same.
> 
> --
> John Birrell