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Date:      Sun, 18 Feb 2001 15:26:45 -0500
From:      "Chad Leigh, Pengar Enterprises, Inc & Shire.Net LLC" <chad@pengar.com>
To:        phowes@fair-ware.com
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE list <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: IBM/Cyrix 6x86 133(PR166) 
Message-ID:  <3257461996.982510005@[192.168.99.123]>
In-Reply-To: <BCEFKOJHNDEAJONMKMHEOEGICJAA.phowes@fair-ware.com>

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I ran Cyrix chips for a while and never had problems building world.   The 
machines were rock solid in all I ever did include world and kernel 
building.  This was under FreeBSD 2.2.x so maybe GCC has "evolved" since 
then. Now I run Intel chips so wouldn't know about later versions.

Chad

--On Sunday, February 18, 2001 1:52 PM -0500 "Paul A. Howes" 
<phowes@fair-ware.com> wrote:

> The Cyrix 686 chips are definately 486-class.  When I built a kernel for a
> system with a Cyrix 6x86-P166+ CPU, it required i486 in the config file,
> not 586.  I made the same mistake as Bob, and had a similar problem.
>
> Also, the last I knew, Cyrix chips could not build world reliably.  It
> seems that GCC did something that caused two separate P166+ CPUs to crash
> with a signal error at the same point in the build, every time.  And no,
> it wasn't bad memory or anything else.  It was definately GCC.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Warner Losh
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 1:00 PM
> To: Virtual Bob
> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE list
> Subject: Re: IBM/Cyrix 6x86 133(PR166)
>
>
> In message
> <Pine.BSF.4.32.0102161819040.1533-100000@kristen.shadowdale.net> Virtual
> Bob writes:
> : By the way, is it possible to compile for one machine with another
> : machine? I tried to compile on my quickest machine and transfer /usr/obj
> : tree to the target (slow) machine. The make installworld sure
> complained a : lot. Did I miss anything else other than /usr/obj?
>
> Yes.  I do it all the time.  But you must have the same /etc/make.conf
> on both systems.
>
> warner
>
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