From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 12:35:22 2003 Return-Path: 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 A250F37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:35:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (conn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8BF143F85 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 12:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from veldy@veldy.net) Received: from veldy.net (veldy-host33.dsl.visi.com [209.98.200.33]) by conn.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DBC8498; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 4K3500B (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with SMTP id B999983BE; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <020201c33119$c15e6c00$d037630a@dh.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "John Nielsen" , References: <200306121325.49933.john@jnielsen.net> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:35:17 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Subject: Re: 5.1 on a 386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 19:35:22 -0000 I could be wrong, but I thought that they finally gave up on 386 support and now the base minimum is 486. It could very well be that you can't compile the system for a 386 without significant modification. Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Nielsen" To: Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: 5.1 on a 386 > Hi folks- > > I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm mostly doing it as a > learning exercise (or perhaps because I'm a masochist), but the machine may > be used as a firewall at some point. I have the OS installed with a custom > kernel, and things are actually going quite well. > > There are (of course) some problems though. Most of the userland utilities > work great, but some just dump core. The one I miss in particular is groff > (for manpages, etc). I suspect that the problems are a result of CPU > instructions that the poor 386 doesn't understand. > > I do have a separate build machine (soon to be running 5.1 as well), so I'd > like to recompile everything (kernel, userland, and > ports-to-be-made-into-packages) for the 386 with the appropriate flags to > gcc and friends. Hopefully that will take care of the issues I'm seeing. > > So my question is, what flags should I use and where should I put them? I'd > like to be able to switch easily between builds for the 386 and "normal" > builds (for everything else). Can I just put an override in /etc/make.conf > or do I have to futz with /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk? (In the case of the > latter, detailed hints would be appreciated.. I don't grok Make all that > well yet.) > > Thanks, > > JN > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >