From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 18 12:34:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (frogmorton.shire.net [204.228.145.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0030337B491 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 12:34:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [216.64.45.172] (helo=[192.168.99.123]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #5) id 14UTzP-0001KR-00; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 06:34:59 -0700 Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:26:45 -0500 From: "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" Reply-To: chad@pengar.com To: phowes@fair-ware.com Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE list Subject: RE: IBM/Cyrix 6x86 133(PR166) Message-ID: <3257461996.982510005@[192.168.99.123]> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.5 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I ran Cyrix chips for a while and never had problems building world. The machines were rock solid in all I ever did include world and kernel building. This was under FreeBSD 2.2.x so maybe GCC has "evolved" since then. Now I run Intel chips so wouldn't know about later versions. Chad --On Sunday, February 18, 2001 1:52 PM -0500 "Paul A. Howes" wrote: > The Cyrix 686 chips are definately 486-class. When I built a kernel for a > system with a Cyrix 6x86-P166+ CPU, it required i486 in the config file, > not 586. I made the same mistake as Bob, and had a similar problem. > > Also, the last I knew, Cyrix chips could not build world reliably. It > seems that GCC did something that caused two separate P166+ CPUs to crash > with a signal error at the same point in the build, every time. And no, > it wasn't bad memory or anything else. It was definately GCC. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Warner Losh > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 1:00 PM > To: Virtual Bob > Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE list > Subject: Re: IBM/Cyrix 6x86 133(PR166) > > > In message > Virtual > Bob writes: > : By the way, is it possible to compile for one machine with another > : machine? I tried to compile on my quickest machine and transfer /usr/obj > : tree to the target (slow) machine. The make installworld sure > complained a : lot. Did I miss anything else other than /usr/obj? > > Yes. I do it all the time. But you must have the same /etc/make.conf > on both systems. > > warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Pengar Enterprises, Inc. and Shire.Net LLC Web and Macintosh Consulting -- full service web hosting Chad Leigh chad@pengar.com chad@shire.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message