> >Hello, > >I would like to set up a machine with which to build world and kernels > >for an assortment of slightly different machines. The machines are > >an assortment of Pentium IIs', IIIs' and AMD K6s'. What CPU type should > >I build for in order to safely accomodate the slight differences? i386? > > > >Also, as a side note, is there any better way to distribute the compiled > >binaries and kernel than NFS mounts? I *really* don't get along with NFS... > > > >Thanks, > >Mark > > > > I don't know what sort of accomodation you mean. The binaries can all > be perfectly portable, or, at your option, you can put in various extra > options to optimize for your processor. To tell you the trush, if you > don't play with the flags, then I see no problem with "slight differences".
Ok, thanks for the affirmation. I was pretty sure that this would be the case but as I'm not familiar with the build process under the hood, I wasn't sure if the makefiles tweaked themselves implicitly depending on the build platform. I'm glad this isn't the case, that would be quite a pickle. > ssh works great for a lot of applications that need to send products to > foreign lands ... it's the "scp" command, in particular, I mean. ssh was the first thing that sprang to mind but it also raised some further questions, like what exactly to copy. /usr/obj would obviously have to go over but what about all the makefiles required for a 'make installworld' etc? I wondered if I would end up just copying over /usr/src entirely, which seems very innefficient. Hmm, it's certainly something to think about. Thanks, Mark -- PGP: http://www.darklogik.org/pub/pgp/pgp.txt B776 43DC 8A5D EAF9 2126 9A67 A7DA 390F DEFF 9DD1
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