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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 00:56:10 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/defaults make.conf
Message-ID:  <20010307005610.A54109@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <200103070839.f278dVK30071@freefall.freebsd.org>; from jkh@FreeBSD.org on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:39:30AM -0800
References:  <200103070839.f278dVK30071@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:39:30AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> jkh         2001/03/07 00:39:30 PST
> 
>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
>     etc/defaults         make.conf 
>   Log:
>   Put a warning into this file concerning the setting of CPUTYPE.
>   
>   Tripped over by: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>

+# WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
+#
+# It should also be noted that YOU SHOULD NOT SET CPUTYPE TO ANYTHING
+# unless you're absolutely 100% sure you know what you are doing!  Some
+# things are known to break with -march=i686, for example, and simply
+# building the world and kernel with CPUTYPE set to something other than
+# the default (i386) is currently guaranteed to hurt you.  You should
+# build things very selectively with CPUTYPE set and proceed only if they
+# still appear to work.

Uhh..evidence, please?

Kris

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