Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:30:33 +0100 (CET) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: ARCH flag in new make.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103070915530.17134-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Dear Sirs. I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose architectural parameters for the CPU architecture. And I will tell you why. Due the last two weeks, that was in fact in the time of FreebSD 4.2, but I think it doesn't matter, I compiled on three SMP system ( one 2x PII 350MHz, one 2x PIII 600MHz KATMAI, one 2x PIII 866MHz Coppermine) the whole stuff with the compiler option -march=i686 on both the kernel compilation option field and the system code optimization field. The result was a completely malfunctional NIS/YP system! I thank Mr. Jan Conrad from University of Bonn who spent more than three hours with me on telephon to checkout what's going wrong on FreeBSD because he used a functional NIS/YP installation - and at mine the cheapest, simplest configuration would work. I do not know exactly which compiler switches the new flag targets, either this for the source code or that for the kernel and I do not know which compiler option, either for kernel or the system, killed the NIS/YP functionality. Fact is - after removing on both optimization fields NIS/YP works well! I must confess that I never tried to compile kernel "pure', means without the option "-march=i686" when I ran into massif NIS/YP problems, so it could be simply an err of mine to compile both, system and kernel, with these options. What is the new option in make.conf doing? Involves it both kernel and system or only system code? Thanks, Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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