On 12/16/07, Pete French <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fairly simple question really - on machines where I never use the compiled > binaries anywhere else, is it O.K. to set the CPU type to 'native' in > make.conf ? According to gcc this should detect the processor type and > set the various flas as approrpiate, which is nice, as we have a mix of P3, > P4 and AMD processors around the place, and having one make.conf which will > do the right thing on all of them would be nice. > > I've been trying it out on a couple of machines, and it seems to work fine, > but I have a feeling that various bits of the kerenel complie are > sensetive to the cpu type, so am just asking to check if it's O.K. > While setting CPUTYPE=native in /etc/make.conf may work, it fails to set MACHINE_CPU to the correct values for your processor type.
The problem is that bsd.cpu.mk doesn't know how to handle CPU type 'native'. There is a simple fix for this problem by applying the attached patch which uses: gcc -v -x c -E -mtune=native /dev/null -o /dev/null 2>&1 | grep mtune | sed -e 's/.*mtune=//' to reset CPUTYPE to the processor type of your system when CPUTYPE=native. Scot
Index: bsd.cpu.mk =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk,v retrieving revision 1.63 diff -u -r1.63 bsd.cpu.mk --- bsd.cpu.mk 16 Oct 2007 18:32:37 -0000 1.63 +++ bsd.cpu.mk 17 Oct 2007 22:28:32 -0000 @@ -18,6 +18,14 @@ . endif .else +# Handle 'native' by converting it to the appropriate CPUTYPE + +.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "i386" || ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "amd64" +. if ${CPUTYPE} == "native" +CPUTYPE != gcc -v -x c -E -mtune=native /dev/null -o /dev/null 2>&1 | grep mtune | sed -e 's/.*mtune=//' +. endif +.endif + # Handle aliases (not documented in make.conf to avoid user confusion # between e.g. i586 and pentium)
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