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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:23:29 +0200
From:      Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To:        Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Compiling 4-RELEASE on 5-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20041014142329.GA43164@ei.bzerk.org>
In-Reply-To: <b2807d040410140623cc28180@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20041014000024.T27161@dante.zefram.net> <b2807d0404101321223f96161e@mail.gmail.com> <20041014011057.P22475@dante.zefram.net> <b2807d0404101400011e9774e8@mail.gmail.com> <20041014100135.GA54754@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <b2807d040410140623cc28180@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:53:31PM +0530, Subhro typed:

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> First of all, I guess u got a bit too aggresive which I believe is
> unnecessary. Secondly, Try disassembling a 4.X binary and a 5.X
> binary, you will understand what I mean. I have done it myself and I
> am sure about it. Things start differing even more when you start
> enabling things like unrolling loops and making things architecture
> dependant with mcpu, march and similar flags. And btw I guess you
> missed a word in my previous mail. I added the word "native". Do
> clarify if that was not clear to you what I meant by Native.

Install 4.x in a subdirectory of your 5.x system. chroot(8) into that 
directory; then build "native" world and kernels all you want.

too easy.

Ruben



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