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Date:      Sat, 01 Sep 2001 13:22:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org, Eric Masson <e-masson@kisoft-services.com>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Subject:   Re: cputype=486
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010901132212.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010901114903.D11062@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>

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On 01-Sep-01 Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 08:14:32AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> Ok, this is an oldie but moldie.  
>> 
>> Is *ANYTHING* going to be done about this ever?  It appears nothing
>> was done at all during the 4.4 cycle. 
> 
> If I have some time (yeah, right :-) I'll take a look at it. The
> quickest fix would be to define CPUTYPE as empty when building
> cross- and build-tools. This should override any definitions that
> are present in /etc/make.conf.

That doesn't help.  The problem is that the cross-tools built during buildworld
are linked against the hosts' libc.a, and then run on the target machine in
installworld.  Thus, in this case you end up running a 686 libc.a in the cross
tool on a 486 and it blows up.
 
> -- 
>  Marcel Moolenaar       USPA: A-39004          marcel@xcllnt.net

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