Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:24:54 -0500 From: David Uhring <duhring@charter.net> To: Trond Endrestøl <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>, mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: Dave Glowacki <dglo@ssec.wisc.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Recommended compilation optimizations Message-ID: <00072615292401.00199@dave.uhring.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261327190.89969-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261327190.89969-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote: > > > On 24 Jul, Dave Glowacki wrote: > > Take a look at the PR I mentioned already: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19245 > > > > = Were both FreeBSD and Mandrake using the exact same version of gcc? > > = Did the Mandrake version have any Linux-specific patches applied? > > > > At least, gcc -v shows nothing special. It is all in the PR. If Mandrake > > does apply some fixes, may be, FreeBSD needs to do so too? This is worth > > investigating, instead of discounting with "don't use optimization". > Maybe there's some difference between the builtin specs that FreeBSD > uses and the specs in > /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux/2.95.2/specs that Mandrake uses. > > Perhaps we should make a specs file for FreeBSD by, say, interpolating > between the builtin specs and Mandrake's specs? > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Trond Endrestøl | trond@gtf.ol.no > Merkantilvegen 59HB7, | trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no > N-2815 GJØVIK, NORWAY |+47 61139424 || +47 63874242 > Patron of The Art of Computer Programming| FreeBSD 3.4 & Pine 4.21 > You should be very careful with using Mandrake's specs, particulary with regard to the kernel. I have Mandrake loaded on another partition of my HD, and I have had to download kernel source from kernel.org and compile a new "pure", non-Mandrake, kernel to get any stability whatever in the system. As soon as I can figure out how to make a Slackware system accept modprobe sb, I will be reinstalling Slack. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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