From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 03:05:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA15928 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:05:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sand.sentex.ca (sand.sentex.ca [206.222.77.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA15909; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 03:05:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from gravel (gravel.sentex.ca [205.211.165.210]) by sand.sentex.ca (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id GAA01294; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 06:06:47 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970304055400.009cde50@sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@sentex.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 05:54:00 -0500 To: Doug White From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: is -O2 -m486 -pipe safe ? Cc: questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.1.32.19970303100950.00944180@sentex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:26 PM 3/03/97 -0800, Doug White wrote: >On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >> >> I am going to upgrade our 2.1.5 FreeBSD news machine to 2.1.7 by >> downloading the new src tree and doing a make world with those options.... >> Is it safe to do, or should I stick with with regular -O for optimzations... > >Why not just run the 'upgrade' procedure from sysinstall? Or is there a >directive to use ``make all install'' and not this? > >FreeBSD Upgrade Checklist: Hi, Thanks for the response... I dont want to use the standard upgrade method because a)I have read a few people have had problems with the 2.1.7 upgrade taking serveral tries before working. This is a production machine that I cant have down for an "unknown" length of time with reboots and potentially tape backup restores b)Although its a production machine, I would sort of like to use it as a general test to upgrading our main server. Also, if I can compile with optimizations, and I can get a bit of a performance boost out of it then great. Its a pentium and the -m486 and -HAVE_FPU should in theory help for some of our apps... There is at least one user who runs some FP transformations on occasion. I have tried this method on my home machine, and it 'seemd' to work. However, its the first time I did a make world, and I couldnt find much documentation on it... Any idea where I can find more docs on the process ? Again, the procedure I followed was 1) Slurp down the src from ftp.freebsd.org in FreeBSD-stable/src 2) moved my old /usr/src to /usr/src.old and untared the stable src to /usr/src 3) did a make world in /usr/src 4) did a make install 5) went to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf and did a config, and recompiled and make install 6) did a reboot and all "seems" fine... But I am worried I missing anything here... I guess also, I would like to move to CSV style updates... Apart from the man pages, are there any extra docs on it? Thanks, ---Mike ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) * To do is to be -- Nietzsche Sentex Communications Corp, * To be is to do -- Sartre Cambridge, Ontario * Do be do be do -- Sinatra (http://www.sentex.net/~mdtancsa) *