From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 10:31:29 2003 Return-Path: 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 C1E5C16A4BF for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:31:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.tcoip.com.br (erato.tco.net.br [200.220.254.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4D4843FE3 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:31:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@tcoip.com.br) Received: from tcoip.com.br ([10.0.2.6]) by mail.tcoip.com.br (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h7THURj13038; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:30:28 -0300 Message-ID: <3F4F8DB2.8040701@tcoip.com.br> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:30:26 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pt-br, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jakubik References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Current Subject: Re: buildworld failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 17:31:29 -0000 Mike Jakubik wrote: > > I think the impact is more social. People will try to compile world and get > failures. Specially people coming from the 4.x branch, where this sort of > think never occurred. If this is the only thing preventing a clean makeworld > with -O2, I think its worth taking a look at. It is not true "this sort of thing" never occurred. We have never, ever, supported anything above -O because it has always given trouble. > I've been using freebsd since the 2.x days, I have always compiled world > and ports with -O2, and never had any instability issues due to the > optimizations. I have switched back to -O and -march=pentium4, the > buildworld finished ok. Lucky you. It does happen that these optimizations may result in code with no apparent problem, depending on one's hardware, though I suspect many people's "hardware problems" were nothing of the sort. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo@tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral@tcoip.com.br dcs@tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Not all men who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we aren't poets.