From owner-freebsd-qa Tue Mar 13 14:41:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6961F37B718; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:41:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from ler-freebie.iadfw.net (ler-freebie.iadfw.net [206.66.13.221]) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.11.3/8.11.3/20010112/$Revision: 1.13 $) with SMTP id f2DMf7I19055; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 16:41:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) From: Larry Rosenman Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:41:07 GMT Message-ID: <20010313.22410700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> Subject: Re: cputype=486 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: John Baldwin , kris@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, qa@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar , =?US-ASCII?Q?Larry?= Rosenman In-Reply-To: <20010313143706.A19201@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010313141251.A18519@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010313143706.A19201@mollari.cthul.hu> X-Mailer: Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; StarOffice/5.2; Linux) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Do I need to send in a PR? Or is this discussion enough to keep this=20 issue on the list for post-4.3?=20 LER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/13/01, 4:37:06 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote regard= ing=20 Re: cputype=3D486: > 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 CP= UTYPE? > > > > > > CPUTYPE has nothing to do with the problem here, so it doesn't nee= d 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 targ= et > > > 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=20 think we > > have time to do it before 4.3. I think that there should be a warni= ng=20 that > > building a world with a CPUTYPE < the CPUTYPE of the build machine i= s not > > supported for 4.3. > That's probably the solution here. > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message