Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:37:06 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, kris@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>, Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <20010313143706.A19201@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010313143228.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:32:28PM -0800 References: <20010313141251.A18519@mollari.cthul.hu> <XFMail.010313143228.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:32:28PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 13-Mar-01 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:48:28PM +0000, Larry Rosenman wrote: > >> So, what is the final word from the powers that be re: 4.3 and CPUTYPE? > > > > CPUTYPE has nothing to do with the problem here, so it doesn't need to > > be removed. The issue is that libraries from the host system are > > being used in some cases by the installed tools built for the target > > system, which is the wrong behaviour and may cause them to fail in > > other situations than if they were compiled with CPUTYPE (remember, > > CPUTYPE does nothing which you couldn't already do with CFLAGS). > > > > Kris > > Well, solving this problem in a sane fashion is not easy, and I don't think we > have time to do it before 4.3. I think that there should be a warning that > building a world with a CPUTYPE < the CPUTYPE of the build machine is not > supported for 4.3. That's probably the solution here. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6rqERWry0BWjoQKURAntpAKDtVriqGAW5sbmpXUTEGtZpnwGNZgCeMBr4 P6saVZcSI7iErK8AgIbjSqw= =tfr5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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