2003-Apr-22

Since the GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX has been implemented I have been receiving errors at build time for a few packages becuase of trying to make symlinks on existing files. Send-pr: pkg/21263: symlinks for GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX not checked, linking fails because file exists The packages include: gtar-base, patch, gm4, and gmake. Maybe ln should also use -f to force; or remove first. (wiz fixed the four Makefiles to use -f and closed on same day.)

From 1.5.x and 1.6.1 the rc variable critical_filesystems_beforenet changed to critical_filesystems_local. (I used this to make sure my memory filesystem was up on my live cd. The old way worked with 1.6 too.)

My 1.6.1. live cd couldn't configure ex0 like 1.5.x could. dmesg said:

ex0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0: 3com 3c900-TPO Ethernet (rev. 0x0)
pci_intr_map: no mapping for pin A (line=ff)
ex0: couldn't map interrupt

I worked around this by making sure my BIOS was configured as non-PnP OS.