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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:37:30 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cputype=486
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010312153730.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010312150601.E93848@mollari.cthul.hu>

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On 12-Mar-01 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:43:23AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>> [ cc's trimmed to sane level, followups to -qa please ]
>> 
>> On 12-Mar-01 Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> > 
>> > ftp://ftp.lerctr.org/freebsd/makeworld-fw.out.gz
>> > 
>> > Enjoy.
>> 
>> It looks like strip is linked against /usr/lib/libc.a.
> 
> Well, that does look like the problem here.  gcc isn't producing bad
> code (and after the revelation that the opcode in question was for a
> pentium pro, it basically ruled out that possibility because lots of
> people build on pentiums, whereas a small enough number build on 486es
> that it could conceivably have gone unnoticed).
> 
> If we can't get this fixed by release, it will have to be documented
> in the release notes that cross-building is broken.

Not sure cross-building is broken, it may be an install issue.  It happened
during installworld, not in the final strip binary that would be installed onto
the system.  I thought /tmp/install.XXXXX was supposed to work around stuff
like that, but maybe that isn't in stable?

> Kris

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