Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:02:01 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de, antony@abacus.co.uk, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf Message-ID: <p05010401b6cc13dab354@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20010307015036.A36721@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010307011446.A8574@mollari.cthul.hu> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103071022560.17134-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> <20010307012454.A14664@mollari.cthul.hu> <20010307014323M.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <20010307015036.A36721@mollari.cthul.hu>
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At 1:50 AM -0800 3/7/01, Kris Kennaway wrote: >I can be confident it is not a dangerous option, having never seen >code failure caused by it desipite extensive use for a long time. >[...] Given the number of people who use -march with no ill effects >the 50/50 estimate is not very accurate. And what is "the number of people who use -march with no ill effects"? (ie, how many people do you know are using it, and what values are they using?) I definitely like the idea of this option, particularly if it means optimizations in openssl. However, I must admit I haven't actually tried it yet, even though I think it is a good option. Thus, I am inclined to think it would be prudent to include some kind of warning for the option in 4.3-release, although the wording used by Jordan does seem a bit over-zealous. Maybe something like If you experience problems while using this option, please remove all your object files and try another 'make buildworld' without any setting for this option. There is some evidence that this option might cause trouble for installations using NIS/YP, for instance. If this option does seem to cause problems for you, please let us know the details via a message to the freebsd-stable mailing list. What I'm shooting for is something which would be helpful for someone who DOES run into problems, and yet makes it clear that this is an option we do WANT to work right, and we are actively interested in fixing any problems which come up. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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