From: "Hartmann, O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ARCH flag in new make.conf
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:30:33 +0100 (CET)
> I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new
> FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose architectural parameters for the
> CPU architecture. And I will tell you why.
It's not supposed to be set by the "general public" and failing to
note this was an error, thanks. I've just committed the following patch:
+# $FreeBSD: src/etc/defaults/make.conf,v 1.97.2.38 2001/03/07 08:39:29 jkh Exp $
#
# NOTE: Please would any committer updating this file also update the
# make.conf(5) manual page, if necessary, which is located in
@@ -25,6 +25,16 @@
# (AMD CPUs) k7 k6-2 k6 k5
# (Intel CPUs) p4 p3 p2 i686 i586/mmx i586 i486 i386
# Alpha/AXP architecture: ev6 pca56 ev56 ev5 ev45 ev4
+#
+# WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
+#
+# It should also be noted that YOU SHOULD NOT SET CPUTYPE TO ANYTHING
+# unless you're absolutely 100% sure you know what you are doing! Some
+# things are known to break with -march=i686, for example, and simply
+# building the world and kernel with CPUTYPE set to something other than
+# the default (i386) is currently guaranteed to hurt you. You should
+# build things very selectively with CPUTYPE set and proceed only if they
+# still appear to work.
#
#CPUTYPE=i686
#NO_CPU_CFLAGS= true # Don't add -march=<cpu> to CFLAGS automatically
I hope that this will prevent others from following (falling?) in your
footsteps.
- Jordan
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