Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:22:28 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> Subject: Re: mozilla's install hanging on amd64 Message-ID: <200504120322.38262.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20050411194439.GA98521@isis.sigpipe.cz> References: <200504102137.j3ALbm0h079084@corbulon.video-collage.com> <425AA728.7050809@samsco.org> <20050411194439.GA98521@isis.sigpipe.cz>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Monday, 11. April 2005 21:44, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > Whether that policy was "-march= must work" or "-march= is > unsupported" "-march is unsupported" (existence of CPUTYPE-macro nonwithstanding) *is* and *has been* the *long standing* consensus. Mikhail seems to have forgotten that not too long ago, CPUTYPE was something for only the most daring would use. GCC's optimizers have seen much improvement since then, but just because you can get away with always setting CPUTYPE for everything much more often these days doesn't mean it's not risky anymore (or we would have the resources to runtime test every port in the collection with all possible CPUTYPE settings on each arch). -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCWyLeXhc68WspdLARAgOOAJ4teyLC/cp+nSPOncWXUQZFjQdvbQCeJoMo lBV6lFfz4bdWzK7RzDIb4lA= =amI2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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