Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:41:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is -O2 -m486 -pipe safe ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970304113923.21914R-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970304055400.009cde50@sentex.net>
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On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote: > a)I have read a few people have had problems with the 2.1.7 upgrade taking > serveral tries before working. This is a production machine that I cant > have down for an "unknown" length of time with reboots and potentially tape > backup restores I've heard that from the people doing 'make world's. :) Never a prob with the standard upgrade procedure. > b)Although its a production machine, I would sort of like to use it as a > general test to upgrading our main server. Also, if I can compile with > optimizations, and I can get a bit of a performance boost out of it then > great. Its a pentium and the -m486 and -HAVE_FPU should in theory help > for some of our apps... There is at least one user who runs some FP > transformations on occasion. OK, I'll buy that. > I have tried this method on my home machine, and it 'seemd' to work. > However, its the first time I did a make world, and I couldnt find much > documentation on it... Any idea where I can find more docs on the process ? Consult hackers@freebsd.org, they're the ones responsible for making sure everything works. > 3) did a make world in /usr/src I've heard 'make all install' but I've never done this. > I guess also, I would like to move to CSV style updates... Apart from the > man pages, are there any extra docs on it? CVSup has a section in the Handbook. If Sup is running fine then you run a prog to convert your existing supfile to cvsup format, and you're off and running. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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