Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 01:43:23 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de, antony@abacus.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf Message-ID: <20010307014323M.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010307012454.A14664@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010307011446.A8574@mollari.cthul.hu> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103071022560.17134-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> <20010307012454.A14664@mollari.cthul.hu>
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I think the point is that you can be no more certain that Mr. Hartman's problems were *not* caused by setting the -march flag to i686 than I can be absolutely certain that they were. Given no better than 50/50 certainty, however, the warning appeared prudent given that we're unlikely to know with anything substantially better than 50/50 on release day and the penalty for being "wrong" is fairly high, whereas the penalty for being "right" is no worse than a gratuitous warning which scares a few people away from an option which wouldn't have saved them anything truly substantial in any case. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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