From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 04:45:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08D016A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:45:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76A2343D45 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:45:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so485700wra for ; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:45:03 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:sent-from-pda:user-agent; b=EHq4SM2kTxQor2c8qxYb9qeMC+kOvlX2144iBpdNV/igVUU2HYMfem1fTq3wb9uDbML4DJuLO9qVonHDvufxeuxz4r+96PU9GdMeetYx0KEm3cPrl1rHzrzL6LKIj8F3R7we5Zp+//C2OuGNSRbmSarGoNRTxdguPJ4hLdbgnaA= Received: by 10.64.201.20 with SMTP id y20mr89042qbf; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:28:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ( [24.193.224.187]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id o32sm355572qbe.2005.11.09.15.28.12; Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:28:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 17:09:01 -0500 From: Mike Hernandez To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20051109220901.GA22021@dementia.beyondnormal.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sent-From-PDA: Yes User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Good idea or Bad idea? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:45:05 -0000 Hello all! I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 now, and of course I'm thinking about my upgrade to 6.0. What I'm wondering is if it's a Good Idea or a Bad Idea (tm) to build everything from source. I have experience building linux from scratch (linuxfromscratch.org) and I have learned that sometimes it's just a better idea to use binary packages (i.e. building everything from source can be a waste of time if there is no performance gain, and it's easy to screw up.) I have no trouble following docs, so I'm not really worried about blowing everything up in the process (even though I might haha...) I'm just wondering if there are any real (noticeable) performance increases if I build my kernel and base system from source. Of course either way my ports will be compiled. Any feedback is appreciated - especially in regards to {C,XX}FLAGS and even more appreciated in the case of "DO NOT USE -br34k-all when compiling __" ;) I've had my share of "oops I guess ____ didn't like -fomit-frame-pointer" in the past with linux ;) Thanks! Mike