From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 15 10:10:15 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4A737B401 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:10:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A67E43FBD for ; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:10:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 91ADC536F; Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:10:09 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Cc: Subject: Re: A couple of 5.0-RELEASE bugs... From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:10:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: <001301c2d51b$b114d140$0200a8c0@howesnet> ("Paul A. Howes"'s message of "Sat, 15 Feb 2003 12:57:20 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090014 (Oort Gnus v0.14) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) References: <001301c2d51b$b114d140$0200a8c0@howesnet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Paul A. Howes" writes: > The first problem is with GCC, which means it may not be > FreeBSD-specific. I build world and kernel with the CPUTYPE flag set to > "p4" in /etc/make.conf, then installed it. Don't Do That [tm]. There seem to be bugs in gcc which cause it to produce broken binaries when asked to optimize for recent Intel processors. There's not much we can do about this except wait for the gcc developers to find and fix these bugs, unless you can figure out exactly which handful of assembler instructions are at fault. > The second problem is related to the "NOMANCOMPRESS" flag in make.conf. > When installing the XFree86-4 port, I found that the "install" and > "package" targets would stop with an error saying that they couldn't > find gzip'd versions of the man pages. Of course that made sense when I > specifically didn't want the man pages compressed! I think some of the > scripts are not paying attention to that flag. Most port developers never test their ports with NOMANCOMPRESS; most of them probably aren't even aware of NOMANCOMPRESS. I don't really see the point with it except on slow machines with plenty of disk space (compressed man pages will probably load faster because disk I/O is far more expensive than the CPU time required to decompress them) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message