Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:48:28 GMT From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> Cc: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org, kris@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <20010313.21482800@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> In-Reply-To: <3AAD78E4.75B12D7@cup.hp.com> References: <XFMail.010312124506.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3AAD394D.49597B93@cup.hp.com> <20010312.21272700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD485E.272DF239@cup.hp.com> <20010312.22211700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD53EA.F71920E8@cup.hp.com> <20010312.23010600@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD6AB5.889C73F8@cup.hp.com> <20010312190530.A14665@lerami.lerctr.org> <3AAD78E4.75B12D7@cup.hp.com>
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So, what is the final word from the powers that be re: 4.3 and CPUTYPE? = LER >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< On 3/12/01, 7:33:24 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com> wrote=20 regarding Re: cputype=3D486: > Larry Rosenman wrote: > > THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. > > > > Either make the cross-archetecture stuff work, or remove CPUTYPE! > You're forgetting that you're not actually doing any cross-architectur= e > stuff. It's much easier to fix if a pentium was considered a different= > architecture than i486. It's not; hence the frustration... > In my reply to the "splitting make.conf" thread on -arch, I mentioned= > something I called modes. Whether that's a good name is totally > irrelevant at this time. What is relevant is that modes *may* save us > here. Not that it'll help us for 4.3, because it'll probably involve > some serious work, but it's one possible way to have cross-building be= > more finegrained than only looking at the architecture. No doubt, othe= r > solutions will exist as well that may even be more simple... > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org > tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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