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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2008 14:40:00 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: make.conf CPUTYPE Xeon Conroe?
Message-ID:  <18382.63248.671899.285410@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803051304.00016.josh@tcbug.org>
References:  <560f92640803050955m2996c796vc02f991a0453a4ba@mail.gmail.com> <200803051304.00016.josh@tcbug.org>

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Josh Paetzel writes:

>  As a general rule, setting a CPUTYPE is something you should try
>  to avoid...there's all sorts of breakage it can cause for very
>  little gain.

	Do you have examples?  I ask because I've had "CPUTYPE? = p4"
on this machine for five years - dozens of buildworlds and possibly
thousands of port builds - and never had anything attributable to
that go wrong.


				Robert Huff



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