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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2012 23:00:53 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>
Cc:        Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Do we have a CPUTYPE=native and/or generic stability problem?
Message-ID:  <20121104230053.00006cd6@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <CABzXLYMfbRGVmupUXpb4QBwRqwtVeenuTnU0X7vwfwTrG8xk9A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:43:30 +0100 Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org>
wrote:

> Le dimanche 4 novembre 2012, Scot Hetzel a =E9crit :
> >
> > When you set CPUTYPE?=3Dnative, bsd.cpu.mk doesn't set MACHINE_CPU to
> > the correct values for your CPUTYPE.
> >
>=20
> This comes regularly in the lists.

This basically means we need to do something about it.

> Try setting the correct CPUTYPE for your CPU, and if you want to use
> "native" somewhere, add "-march=3Dnative" to your CFLAGS. There's
> another option to use so that *.mk don't add another "-march" with
> your CPUTYPE automatically.

We either should bail out if someone uses native as CPUTYPE, or we
should make it just work. Personally I don't have a preference for one
or the other, important is that the user gets a behavior he can count
on.

Bye,
Alexander.

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