Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:18:25 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname Message-ID: <1108117105.4084.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <200502110840.j1B8eIUq074988@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200502110840.j1B8eIUq074988@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 08:40 +0000, Robert Millan wrote: > The following reply was made to PR kern/77355; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org> > To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname > Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:30:35 +0100 > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:08:26PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > >Description: > > > This patch enables the kernel of FreeBSD to give output of i*86 subarches > > > in the uname kernel call. As a result, `uname -m' may print "i686", etc > > > instead of always "i386". > > > > Why? Sounds like it could break a lot of stuff. > > With this change, the config.guess triplet becomes i686-unknown-freebsd5.3 > (or whatever suitable). Some programs detect this and use it for optimisation. > > -- > .''`. Proudly running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD unstable/unreleased (on UFS2+S) > : :' : > `. `' http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu > `- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The proper way to specify optimizations in FreeBSD is with relevant entries in /etc/make.conf. --Devon
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