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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:43:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>
To:        FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org>
Subject:   Re: /etc/make.conf and AMD Athlon 600
Message-ID:  <20021008004131.O35848-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
In-Reply-To: <0eit0e7p6q.t0e@localhost.localdomain>

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On 6 Oct 2002, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> PL> My PC has an AMD Athlon 600, so in /etc/make.conf should I have i686 or k7?
> Find your answer (k7) in /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk

I didn't have .../share/mk/ so I went out with google and downloaded
bsd.cpu.mk -- Wouldn't it be nice if "mv" had a flag to create directories
if they don't exist?  Same with the command "touch."

> I've been using "k6-2" for my AMD pre-Athlon CPU for a year or so,
> with no known problems, but do read the warnings in
> /etc/defaults/make.conf about it.  The default is i386.

Defaults are made to be over-ridden and surpassed as HW allows. ;-)

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