From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 1 15:37:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA23433 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:37:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.san.rr.com (mail-atm.san.rr.com [204.210.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA23422 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:37:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.san.rr.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA22753 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 1997 15:37:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199709012237.PAA22753@mail.san.rr.com> Received: from dt5h1n61.san.rr.com(204.210.31.97) by mail via smap (V2.0) id xma022684; Mon, 1 Sep 97 15:36:53 -0700 From: "Studded" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Date: Mon, 01 Sep 97 15:36:49 -0700 Reply-To: "Studded" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Upgrade/sysinstall questions.. what am I downloading? :) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry to reply to my own post so quickly, but the sysinstall upgrade bombed out with a 'broken pipe' error, so I'm scrapping that. On Mon, 01 Sep 97 15:09:23 -0700, Studded wrote: > Also, do I gain anything from upgrading via make world as opposed >to an upgrade with sysinstall? I have a pentium II system and I specify >CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe and COPTFLAGS= -O2 -pipe in /etc/make.conf because my >understanding is that will give me a little better performance overall. >(The -O2, not the -pipe obviously. :) Also, does the HAVE_FPU flag in >make.conf help anything other than the sun libm? I noticed that in # $Id: make.conf,v 1.37.2.4 1997/04/15 08:26:19 asami Exp $ the '#HAVE_FPU= yes' option is missing, and I couldn't get the www search pages to give me any info on /src/etc to see the commit messages as to why the change was made. Thanks again, :) Doug Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life. -Shakespeare, "Henry V"