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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:48:28 GMT
From:      Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
Cc:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cputype=486
Message-ID:  <20010313.21482800@ler-freebie.iadfw.net>
In-Reply-To: <3AAD78E4.75B12D7@cup.hp.com>
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So, what is the final word from the powers that be re: 4.3 and CPUTYPE? =


LER


>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

On 3/12/01, 7:33:24 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> wrote=20
regarding Re: cputype=3D486:


> Larry Rosenman wrote:

> > THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.
> >
> > Either make the cross-archetecture stuff work, or remove CPUTYPE!

> You're forgetting that you're not actually doing any cross-architectur=
e
> stuff. It's much easier to fix if a pentium was considered a different=

> architecture than i486. It's not; hence the frustration...

> In my reply to the "splitting make.conf" thread on -arch, I  mentioned=

> something I called modes. Whether that's a good name is totally
> irrelevant at this time. What is relevant is that modes *may* save us
> here. Not that it'll help us for 4.3, because it'll probably involve
> some serious work, but it's one possible way to have cross-building be=

> more finegrained than only looking at the architecture. No doubt, othe=
r
> solutions will exist as well that may even be more simple...

> --
> Marcel Moolenaar
>   mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org
>   tel:  (408) 447-4222

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