[git commit nptl] Add update instructions for x86_64 WRT utmp format

Bernhard Reutner-Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Fri Nov 27 09:03:24 UTC 2009


commit: http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/commit/?id=8739ed0a9b6597e7106f878ec159a19fe0848f23
branch: http://git.uclibc.org/uClibc/commit/?id=refs/heads/nptl

Commit 983c4d5188f8a7eb00766e3b3e89b218899a3a08 changed the utmp format
on x86_64 hosts to be 32bit compatible. Mention this fact and hint
x86_64 users that they will have to wipe their utmp file upon upgrade.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop at gmail.com>
---
 Changelog |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 52fd3ed..18a4b07 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+0.9.31  not yet released
+
+    Upgrade notices from previous versions.
+    o On x86_64 the format of /var/run/utmp changed compared to previous
+      versions. To retain compatibility with glibc we now define
+      __WORDSIZE_COMPAT32. If you are certain that you will never use
+      glibc nor run in i386 mode on your x86_64 installation, you can
+      remove this definition from wordsize.h.
+      Otherwise you have to delete /var/run/utmp on x86_64 hosts when
+      upgrading to 0.9.31
+
+
 0.9.27	12 January 2005
 
     This has been a long time in the making...  Release highlights:
-- 
1.6.3.3



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