From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 14:24:32 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 4C71B16A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-234.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.234]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7065343FA3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:24:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B648266D16; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B1FF1BE9; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:24:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:24:30 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Readle Message-ID: <20031017212430.GB5764@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20031017181908.42948.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031017181908.42948.qmail@web40610.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make optimizations 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: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:24:32 -0000 --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Chris Readle wrote: > Since I'm going to be cvsuping (is that even a word?) up to RELENG_4 from > RELENG_4_8 this weekend, I was wanting to see what the general concensus > on /etc/make.conf optimizations is, particularly CPUTYPE. I'm running on > an Athlon processor and I currently have CPUTYPE =3D k7 in my > /etc/make.conf. >=20 > Is this generally considered a good thing, bad thing or an indifferent > thing? Good thing, as long as it works. For example, some versions of gcc have bugs in CPU-specific optimizations that are enabled by setting CPUTYPE. CPUTYPE is generally considered safe, though. > Also, are there other optimizations that I might want to consider? Not that are recommended. Kris --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/kF4OWry0BWjoQKURArRnAKCCpTTMqwg5iZIV3fV0lJFNdzCL5QCfUb6q +hLCpN6FPJBrhvf2CXvm7oY= =rvPa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13--