Build on one CPU, run on different ones? (AMD, VIA, Intel)
I've got a variety of boxes around the house which all share /usr/local and /usr/X11 binaries, libraries and such. These boxes are of different vintages ranging from an ancient P60 to a new Pentium D, but also an older AMD K6 cpu and a VIA EPIA. My main NFS server is a 4-year old Intel and isn't the fastest for building World or large ports. If I build on the new Pentium D box, will the binaries run on the other systems? Or are there some compatibility issues? Since the FreeBSD release binaries run on all the CPUs I'm guessing there won't be any problem. I've seen some multimedia ports that can optimize for a certain chip but I don't tend to use them. Should I worry and just build on the fastest system I have? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build on one CPU, run on different ones? (AMD, VIA, Intel)
In the last episode (Feb 26), Chris Shenton said: I've got a variety of boxes around the house which all share /usr/local and /usr/X11 binaries, libraries and such. These boxes are of different vintages ranging from an ancient P60 to a new Pentium D, but also an older AMD K6 cpu and a VIA EPIA. My main NFS server is a 4-year old Intel and isn't the fastest for building World or large ports. If I build on the new Pentium D box, will the binaries run on the other systems? Or are there some compatibility issues? As long as you haven't set any -march= flags in make.conf, the binaries should run fine on any x86 cpu. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
