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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2003 12:25:12 +0100
From:      des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Rob <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -mieee on Alpha
Message-ID:  <xzpekw2ge07.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <3FBDF385.2040600@ozemail.com.au> (rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au's message of "Fri, 21 Nov 2003 22:14:13 %2B1100")
References:  <3FBDF385.2040600@ozemail.com.au>

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Rob <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> writes:
> Where is -mieee specified when building applications from ports or
> when building world?  I wa under the impression that it was in
> /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk and /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk, but I can't
> see it.

It is set in bsd.cpu.mk for the alpha case.  Unfortunately, it is not
set in the NOCPUCFLAGS case, which is a bug (NOCPUCFLAGS is intended
to give a safe set of flags, removind -mieee is definitely not safe)

> Also, looking back throught the archives, there doesn't appear to eb a
> way to turn it off (if one should so desire), is this correct?

You don't want it off.  Your system will stop working after the next
'make world'.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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