From owner-freebsd-qa Tue Mar 13 14:34: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8079937B71A; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:33:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from ler-freebie.iadfw.net (ler-freebie.iadfw.net [206.66.13.221]) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.11.3/8.11.3/20010112/$Revision: 1.13 $) with SMTP id f2DMRnI18359; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:27:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) From: Larry Rosenman Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:27:49 GMT Message-ID: <20010313.22274900@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: cputype=486 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Larry Rosenman , Marcel Moolenaar , =?US-ASCII?Q?John?= Baldwin , qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20010313141251.A18519@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <3AAD394D.49597B93@cup.hp.com> <20010312.21272700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD485E.272DF239@cup.hp.com> <20010312.22211700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD53EA.F71920E8@cup.hp.com> <20010312.23010600@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD6AB5.889C73F8@cup.hp.com> <20010312190530.A14665@lerami.lerctr.org> <3AAD78E4.75B12D7@cup.hp.com> <20010313.21482800@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <20010313141251.A18519@mollari.cthul.hu> X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2; Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG So, we agree that it is wrong for the cross stuff to use host libraries = when building tools that will run on the target? Marcel seemed to=20 indicate that this was fine. I think that it is wrong. Will a note be = added at least for 4.3 to note this for the naive novice user?=20 Meanwhile, I'm building a non-PPro optimized set, and installing my 486 = to current -STABLE.=20 LER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/13/01, 4:12:51 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote regard= ing=20 Re: cputype=3D486: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:48:28PM +0000, Larry Rosenman wrote: > > So, what is the final word from the powers that be re: 4.3 and CPUTY= PE? > CPUTYPE has nothing to do with the problem here, so it doesn't need to= > be removed. The issue is that libraries from the host system are > being used in some cases by the installed tools built for the target > system, which is the wrong behaviour and may cause them to fail in > other situations than if they were compiled with CPUTYPE (remember, > CPUTYPE does nothing which you couldn't already do with CFLAGS). > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message