From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 13:52:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 652981065677 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:52:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from relay.lists@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f17.google.com (mail-gx0-f17.google.com [209.85.217.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE288FC20 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:52:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from relay.lists@gmail.com) Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so13555945gxk.19 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:52:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=dvWSWu9IJWzQhJbOiZuoHFBiV/EY0ozlCSfFnVoskqM=; b=lqBs2afIcdKxm1c+paAcjw7MXQgiVg7hxIIJgk535h1LeViv8+F0ehkIGhX8n7zFLJ /l3cGMVwuaGC9beaqKKYxcLTPZk1fhW+Nd8465QENimZoOatPPzBih37Xe1BzU8yIWYN rKNJwbOdgnwuO0jH7wtlMbksWwDLpcKChp418= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=LgHPr0UYvyAJCpBvnOEwNU2eyT9bP/teYe7mDBVUBi2edewqaypqr3g3Cn6x6cydCr H8t7wwq7lshla+eujInm0pDsG167vR/1WZQLgxy5mFsSzLyR5IW7ppIltldm3YU0cTR5 F9Rb6HDAaikBz8GbKV3ZX79LP6TdAYNq3O4hg= Received: by 10.86.95.8 with SMTP id s8mr969904fgb.6.1221052953932; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ilievnet.com ( [84.21.204.254]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm7398828fgg.0.2008.09.10.06.22.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:22:27 +0300 From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080910162227.0241e209@ilievnet.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: branches, updates, buildworld X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:52:50 -0000 Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD and I'd like to give it a try as a PostgreSQL test server on an ancient box. Since I have a lot to learn about this OS, I chose FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE. (It's the most current production-ready release now, right?). On the other hand I'd like to make every possible speed improvement, because the CPU is Pentium-2@400MHz. So, my questions are: 1) After reading the docs I remained with the impression that sources should be updated for "-current" and "-stable" branches only. Is this correct? 2) If I'm wrong about (1) how should I update the "-release" sources in order to "make buildworld" with additional gcc optimisations? 3) "make buildworld" re-compiles _everything_ or the "base system" only? 4) Will "make buildworld" fail with a make.conf like this: ######## PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 BDECFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -mmmx -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer \ -combine -fno-strict-aliasing" CFLAGS+=${BDECFLAGS} CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS} COPTFLAGS="-march=pentium2 -mmmx -pipe -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer \ -combine -fno-strict-aliasing" BOOTWAIT=3000 DOC_LANG=en NO_SHAREDOCS=True WITHOUT_MODULES="INET6 zfs wlan firewire lpt joy iscsi cpufreq coda \ coda5 3dfx acpi unionfs ilpt srv4 smbfs reiserfs pccard palm uscanner \ xfs audiocs emu10k1 fm801 neomagic t4dwave cmi emu10kx hda sb16 uaudio \ ad1816 cs4281 envy24 ich sb8 via8233 als4000 csa envy24ht maestro \ via82c686 atiixp driver es137x maestro3 solo vibes au88x0 ds1 mss \ spicds" ########