Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:01:29 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "Pete French" <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it safe to use CPUTYPE?=native on 7.0 ? Message-ID: <790a9fff0712161001m3f152373jc7e03e0dd9b8e914@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1J3xY7-00011v-9H@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <790a9fff0712160847m4c25cf31t756f0a7988e2e1f8@mail.gmail.com> <E1J3xY7-00011v-9H@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On 12/16/07, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote: > > While setting CPUTYPE=native in /etc/make.conf may work, it fails to > > set MACHINE_CPU to the correct values for your processor type. > > > > The problem is that bsd.cpu.mk doesn't know how to handle CPU type 'native'. > > Ah, O.K. - thats the kind of thing I was worried about... > > > There is a simple fix for this problem by applying the attached patch > > which uses: > > Great, thanks. Out of curiosity, how come this patch isn't in 7.0 ? > PR 112997 was submitted to resolve this problem: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=112997 it just didn't have enough attention to get someone interested in committing it. Scot
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