From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 26 20:54:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8831516A420 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:54:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075E443D46 for ; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:54:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k1QKscqB056947; Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:54:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:54:38 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Chris Shenton Message-ID: <20060226205438.GA89507@dan.emsphone.com> References: <86r75qc4lq.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86r75qc4lq.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Build on one CPU, run on different ones? (AMD, VIA, Intel) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:54:44 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 26), Chris Shenton said: > I've got a variety of boxes around the house which all share > /usr/local and /usr/X11 binaries, libraries and such. These boxes > are of different vintages ranging from an ancient P60 to a new > Pentium D, but also an older AMD K6 cpu and a VIA EPIA. > > My main NFS server is a 4-year old Intel and isn't the fastest for > building World or large ports. If I build on the new Pentium D box, > will the binaries run on the other systems? Or are there some > compatibility issues? As long as you haven't set any -march= flags in make.conf, the binaries should run fine on any x86 cpu. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com