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@ -13,6 +13,15 @@ similar operating system such as Linux with the GNU tools installed. The build
system assumes the presence of some GNU extensions in the standard command line
tools. This document will detail the process of bootstrapping a Sortix system
from another operating system.
.Pp
Be sure you are reading the latest version of this document, rather than an old
copy installed on the system or on an online manual page viewer, if you want to
build the latest development code rather than the stable release. To view the
instructions for the latest source code using the command line:
.Bd -literal
cd /latest/source/code &&
man share/man/man7/cross-development.7
.Ed
.Ss Overview
To build Sortix you need to get these programs from your operating system vendor
or compile them yourself:
@ -258,7 +267,7 @@ cross-compiler you can run:
.Pp
This creates a bootable
.Pa sortix.iso .
.Pp
.Ss Additional Required Reading
The
.Xr development 7
manual page documents how to develop Sortix and how to use the build system.
@ -267,6 +276,12 @@ and is not sufficient to develop Sortix, or to make a fully functional and
installable Sortix system. The above instructions only gives you a
cross-compilation of the base system without any of the nessesary ports of third
party software.
.Pp
The
.Xr following-development 7
manual page documents what needs to be done to stay updated with the latest
developments. You will need to read the new version of that document whenever
you update the source code.
.Ss Troubleshooting
If producing a bootable cdrom with
.Xr grub-mkrescue 1
@ -282,6 +297,7 @@ in your case.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr make 1 ,
.Xr development 7 ,
.Xr following-development 7 ,
.Xr installation 7 ,
.Xr porting-guide 7 ,
.Xr sysinstall 8

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@ -315,10 +315,17 @@ target and prepare a
.Pa /src/release
directory with a directory structure and miscellaneous files suitable for a
formal online release.
.Ss Following Development
The
.Xr following-development 7
manual page documents what needs to be done to stay updated with the latest
developments. You will need to read the new version of that document whenever
you update the source code.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr git 1 ,
.Xr make 1 ,
.Xr cross-development 7 ,
.Xr following-development 7 ,
.Xr installation 7 ,
.Xr porting-guide 7 ,
.Xr serial-transfer 7 ,

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.Dd $Mdocdate: October 10 2016 $
.Dt FOLLOWING-DEVELOPMENT 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm following-development
.Nd instructions for following development
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This document is a list of changes that affect the ability to build and run the
latest Sortix source code, when doing native
.Xr development 7
or
.Xr cross-development 7 .
The list is in reverse chronological order. The system has policies that handle
incompatible changes gracefully.
.Pp
If you are updating to new source code, be sure you are reading the new version
of this document, rather than an old copy installed on the system or on an
online manual page viewer. To view the new version from the command line:
.Bd -literal
cd /src # system source code location
mandoc share/man/man7/following-development.7 | pager # natively
man share/man/man7/following-development.7 # non-natively
.Ed
.Pp
The
.Xr sysmerge 8
and
.Xr sysupgrade 8
programs automatically handles compatibility issues when upgrading an existing
system to a new build. They can handle incompatible ABI changes and
automatically fix configuration files and other issues.
.Pp
When building the system from source code, you must have the latest build tools
installed as detailed in
.Xr development 7
and
.Xr cross-development 7 .
After upgrading to newer source code, you must first install the new build tools
before building. If this is needed, there will be a notice in this document.
Build tools will likely complain about missing options or invalid parameters if
they are not up to date. Automatic build scripts should use the
.Sy install-build-tools
target provided by the root makefile.
.Pp
Changes to the source code may rely on the newest build tools, but the build
tools must retain the ability to build all the way back to the latest stable
release. The build tools of release N+1 must be able to build release N. The
build tools must be portable to the latest stable release and the supported
.Xr cross-development 7
systems. If a build tool needs an incompatible change, there must be added a
way to opt into the new behavior, and the build system must use that option and
not use the old behavior any more. This forward compatibility will allow the
removal of the old behavior after the next release. Temporary compatibility
must be mentioned with a condition for when it can be removed and it must have
instructions for what needs to be done. Use a comment in the format
"TODO: After
.\" Line break so this occurrence doesn't make a false positive when I grep.
releasing Sortix x.y, foo." to allow the maintainer to easily
.Xr grep 1
for it after a release.
.Sh CHANGES
.Ss Seed kernel entropy with randomness from the previous boot
Entropy from the previous boot is now stored in
.Pa /boot/random.seed .
The bootloader is supposed to load this file as a multiboot module with the
command line option
.Fl \-random-seed .
The kernel will issue a security warning if it was booted without a random seed,
unless the kernel command line contains
.Fl \-no-random-seed .
The GRUB port has been updated with an improved
.Pa /etc/grub.d/10_sortix
script that will automatically emit the appropriate GRUB commands.
.Pp
Users using the included GRUB will need to update to the latest GRUB port
and then run
.Xr update-initrd 8
to regenerate
.Pa /etc/grub/grub.cfg .
All of this will be handled automatically if upgrading with
.Xr sysupgrade 8
and the new build contains the new GRUB, or if upgrading with
.Xr sysmerge 8
and the source system root contains the new GRUB.
.Pp
Users not using the included GRUB, but still using GRUB from another
installation, will need to reconfigure that bootloader installation. In the
boot commands of this system, add after the initrd load:
.Bd -literal
module /boot/random.seed --random-seed
.Ed
.Pp
If the GRUB port is installed, but not used, then if that port is updated with
.Xr sysupgrade 8
or
.Xr sysmerge 8
or manually, the
.Pa /etc/grub.d/10_sortix
script can be invoked, which will generate a
.Pa /etc/grub.d/10_sortix.cache
fragment that can be spliced into the configuration of another GRUB
installation.
.Pp
Users not using GRUB will need to configure their bootloader
to load
.Pa /boot/random.seed
appropriately.
.Pp
.Xr sysmerge 8
and
.Xr sysupgrade 8
will automatically create
.Pa /boot/random.seed
if it doesn't exist. If using neither to upgrade, manually create that file
owned by user root and group root with mode 600 containing 256 bytes of entropy.
.Ss Modernize carray(1) and fix missing allocation checks
The
.Xr carray 1
build tool has gained the
.Fl EGHot
options and the build system now relies on this.
.Xr carray 1
must be upgraded before building the system.
.Bd -literal
cd /src/carray &&
make clean &&
make install
.Ed
.Pp
If not developing natively, set
.Ev PREFIX
to the desired location.
.Ss Remove compatibility with Sortix 0.9
Sortix 1.0 has been released. The build tools are no longer capable of building
anything prior to the Sortix 1.0 release.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr cross-development 7 ,
.Xr development 7 ,
.Xr sysmerge 8 ,
.Xr sysupgrade 8