From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 4 11:41:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10831 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA10818; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:41:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA22066; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:41:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:41:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Mike Tancsa cc: questions@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is -O2 -m486 -pipe safe ? In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970304055400.009cde50@sentex.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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