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Date:      Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:36:48 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Johan Hendriks <Johan@double-l.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CPUTYPE weirdness
Message-ID:  <20080814143648.GB28316@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DE086@w2003s01.double-l.local>
References:  <48A431C6.1050401@moneybookers.com> <57200BF94E69E54880C9BB1AF714BBCB5DE086@w2003s01.double-l.local>

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On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:13:51PM +0200, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> >Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:35:46PM +0200, Pascal Hofstee wrote:
> >>   
> >>> I just installed a fresh FreeBSD/amd64 7.0-RELEASE and trying to update
> >>> to RELENG_7_0.
> >>>
> >>> I added CPUTYPE ?= core2 to my /etc/src.conf and every call to make
> >>> in /usr/src now gives me the error
> >>>
> >>> "/usr/src/Makefile.inc1", line 142: CPUTYPE global should be set
> >>> with ?=.
> >>> *** Error code 1
> >>>
> >>> Anyone has any idea what i am doing wrong here ... this same mechanism
> >>> has worked flawlessly on several other systems (although they were not
> >>> RELENG_7_0) ?
> >>>     
> >>
> >> 1) Remove the space after the word "CPUTYPE", e.g.:
> >>
> >> 	CPUTYPE?=core2
> >>
> >> You can put a tab after the "=" if you want, e.g.:
> >>
> >> 	CPUTYPE?=	core2
> >>
> >> 2) According to some very old mail I have (will dig it up if you want),
> >> Core2Duo users should be using CPUTYPE?=nocona.
> >>   
> >This should be fixed long time ago. core2 is alias for nocona but the 
> >idea is users to
> >be ready when additional optimization for core2 are added.
> 
> If you install amd64 then you need nocona if you install i386 you will need presscot.
> Or use core2 and FreeBSD itself looks at the arch and use nocona or presscot.
> 
> That?s what I understand from what I read on the net

1) It's prescott, not presscot.

2) You can use nocona on both i386 and amd64 -- I speak from
experience.  I'm referring to RELENG_7 by the way; I don't think
nocona is recognised by the base system gcc on RELENG_6.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
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