Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-08 Thread Randell Jesup
Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I think you are being entirely sensible. I used to use -O2 all the time, >but as of about a year ago it started breaking things (starting with >the FreeBSD kernel). Then I started using -Os because I like the code >compaction it produced,

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:05:44PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > Will be curious to see using -O2 for world and kernel builds will break > with the new flags. Matt may have given up on it, but it has been working > (again) for months now. Keep expecting it to break, which these changes

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:31 PM 3/7/01 -0500, Russell D. Murphy Jr. wrote: >Another datapoint. . . > >I changed make.conf on, I believe, Dec. 6: > ># CFLAGS= -O -pipe >CFLAGS= -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro > >(There's also: > >COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe) > >(I gather that -mcpu is redundant.) I r

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:28:29PM +0100, Claude Buisson wrote: > given that the optimization MUST be activated by a CPUTYPE=XXX in > the user's /etc/make.conf, what is the use of NO_CPU_FLAGS ? > just needing 2 lines instead of 0 in /etc/make.conf ? Because you may want OpenSSL ASM optimizatio

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Jordan Hubbard
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

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:34:39AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > 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

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Jordan Hubbard
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

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:23:06AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Is this also true for SMP systems? SMP systems use C code like non-SMP systems; I wouldn't expect -march to generically make a difference there (i.e. it should be no different than non-SM

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: Is this also true for SMP systems? :>On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:09:36AM +, Antony T Curtis wrote: :>> Kris Kennaway wrote: :>> > :>> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: :>> > > Dear Sirs. :>> > > :>> > > I'm really confused

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:09:36AM +, Antony T Curtis wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > > Dear Sirs. > > > > > > I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new > > > FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf w

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Antony T Curtis wrote: :>Kris Kennaway wrote: :>> :>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: :>> > Dear Sirs. :>> > :>> > I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new :>> > FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose architect

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: Dear Kris. I asure you: the only flag was -march=i686 and -O on both kernel and system code flags. The phenomenon was that a local ypbind couldn't contact the local or any remote ypserver and it disappeared exactly then when removing the i686 option (and

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Antony T Curtis
Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > Dear Sirs. > > > > 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