From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 15 7:34:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3095837B401 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hermes.pressenter.com (hermes.pressenter.com [209.224.20.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BE043E72 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:34:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nospam@hiltonbsd.com) Received: from [209.224.35.188] (helo=daggar.sbgnet.net) by hermes.pressenter.com with smtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 17fLhQ-0006cO-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:34:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:34:07 -0500 From: Stephen Hilton To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Larry Rosenman Subject: Re: Need instructions: build kernel on one machine; install on another Message-Id: <20020815093407.67b45a5e.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> In-Reply-To: <1029421325.408.4.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020813084802.037d9498@magpie.zpfe.com> <20020815090600.6db70420.nospam@hiltonbsd.com> <3D5BB7CA.6070205@georgiacenter.org> <1029421325.408.4.camel@lerlaptop.iadfw.net> Organization: HiltonBSD.com X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 15 Aug 2002 09:22:05 -0500 Larry Rosenman wrote: > On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 09:16, Robin P. Blanchard wrote: > > from an earlier discussion (initiated by me): > > > > "You *MUST* use a HOST SYSTEM compiled for the LOWEST processor you want > > to installworld to. There are a few places (strip for one) that link in > > /usr/lib/libc.a and NOT the one from /usr/obj/... " > > > > Thus you can't use an i686 optimized world host box to install a lower > > optimized /usr/obj to. > > see also PR i386/30276 from me. > Larry, I agree, with FreeBSD having such an edge in performance on "older" hardware (sorry Intel and AMD :-) this is something to pursue. ------------------snip------------------ Fix Update build system to NOT include host libc.a in any tools that will be executed on the target system. ------------------snip------------------ Thanks for the information, Stephen Hilton nospam@hiltonbsd.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message