From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 10:18:28 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098A716A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:18:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq2.home.nl (smtpq2.home.nl [213.51.128.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE15D43D2F for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:18:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from [213.51.128.135] (port=34705 helo=smtp4.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CzXsY-0005ug-EA; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:18:26 +0100 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.72.18.239]:33190 helo=192.168.1.104) by smtp4.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1CzXsX-0003ZG-LE; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:18:25 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: Robert Millan In-Reply-To: <200502110840.j1B8eIUq074988@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200502110840.j1B8eIUq074988@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: SiteTronics Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:18:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1108117105.4084.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:18:28 -0000 On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 08:40 +0000, Robert Millan wrote: > The following reply was made to PR kern/77355; it has been noted by GNATS. > > From: Robert Millan > To: Kris Kennaway > Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org > Subject: Re: kern/77355: Detect i*86 subarches for uname > Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:30:35 +0100 > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:08:26PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > >Description: > > > This patch enables the kernel of FreeBSD to give output of i*86 subarches > > > in the uname kernel call. As a result, `uname -m' may print "i686", etc > > > instead of always "i386". > > > > Why? Sounds like it could break a lot of stuff. > > With this change, the config.guess triplet becomes i686-unknown-freebsd5.3 > (or whatever suitable). Some programs detect this and use it for optimisation. > > -- > .''`. Proudly running Debian GNU/kFreeBSD unstable/unreleased (on UFS2+S) > : :' : > `. `' http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu > `- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The proper way to specify optimizations in FreeBSD is with relevant entries in /etc/make.conf. --Devon