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Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 23:29:16 +0200
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: make buildworld fails with CPUTYPE set
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On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:21:52PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Pietro Cerutti <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> wrote:
> >CPUTYPE=pentium3[m]
> 
> I solved the problem by putting pentium3 instead of pentium3[m].
> 
> So why it's stated "pentium3[m]" in line 35 of
> /usr/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf ?
> 
> #       (Intel CPUs) nocona pentium4[m] prescott pentium3[m] pentium-m
> #        pentium2 pentiumpro pentium-mmx pentium i486 i386
> 

It is just a shorthand for 'pentium3 pentium3m'.
The [xxx] syntax is often used in used in Unix documentation to denote
an optional part of a command line (or similar.)  In this case it is the
letter 'm' which can be added or not.



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