Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:32:28 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: kris@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <XFMail.010313143228.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010313141251.A18519@mollari.cthul.hu>
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On 13-Mar-01 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:48:28PM +0000, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> So, what is the final word from the powers that be re: 4.3 and CPUTYPE? > > CPUTYPE has nothing to do with the problem here, so it doesn't need to > be removed. The issue is that libraries from the host system are > being used in some cases by the installed tools built for the target > system, which is the wrong behaviour and may cause them to fail in > other situations than if they were compiled with CPUTYPE (remember, > CPUTYPE does nothing which you couldn't already do with CFLAGS). > > Kris Well, solving this problem in a sane fashion is not easy, and I don't think we have time to do it before 4.3. I think that there should be a warning that building a world with a CPUTYPE < the CPUTYPE of the build machine is not supported for 4.3. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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