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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:37:06 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, 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:  <20010313143706.A19201@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010313143228.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:32:28PM -0800
References:  <20010313141251.A18519@mollari.cthul.hu> <XFMail.010313143228.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:32:28PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
>=20
> 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=
?=20
> >=20
> > 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).
> >=20
> > Kris
>=20
> Well, solving this problem in a sane fashion is not easy, and I don't thi=
nk we
> have time to do it before 4.3.  I think that there should be a warning th=
at
> building a world with a CPUTYPE < the CPUTYPE of the build machine is not
> supported for 4.3.

That's probably the solution here.

Kris

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