Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-08 Thread Randell Jesup
Matt Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you are being entirely sensible. I used to use -O2 all the time, but as of about a year ago it started breaking things (starting with the FreeBSD kernel). Then I started using -Os because I like the code compaction it produced, but

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Antony T Curtis
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: Dear Sirs. I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose architectural parameters for the CPU architecture. And I will tell you

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: Dear Kris. I asure you: the only flag was -march=i686 and -O on both kernel and system code flags. The phenomenon was that a local ypbind couldn't contact the local or any remote ypserver and it disappeared exactly then when removing the i686 option

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Antony T Curtis wrote: :Kris Kennaway wrote: : : On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: : Dear Sirs. : : I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new : FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose architectural parameters

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:09:36AM +, Antony T Curtis wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: Dear Sirs. I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Hartmann, O.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: Is this also true for SMP systems? :On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:09:36AM +, Antony T Curtis wrote: : Kris Kennaway wrote: : : On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: : Dear Sirs. : : I'm really confused and surprised by

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:23:06AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote: On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: Is this also true for SMP systems? SMP systems use C code like non-SMP systems; I wouldn't expect -march to generically make a difference there (i.e. it should be no different than non-SMP

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: "Hartmann, O." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ARCH flag in new make.conf Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:30:33 +0100 (CET) I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose architectural parameters for the CPU architect

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Jordan Hubbard
I think the point is that you can be no more certain that Mr. Hartman's problems were *not* caused by setting the -march flag to i686 than I can be absolutely certain that they were. Given no better than 50/50 certainty, however, the warning appeared prudent given that we're unlikely to know

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:28:29PM +0100, Claude Buisson wrote: given that the optimization MUST be activated by a CPUTYPE=XXX in the user's /etc/make.conf, what is the use of NO_CPU_FLAGS ? just needing 2 lines instead of 0 in /etc/make.conf ? Because you may want OpenSSL ASM

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 02:31 PM 3/7/01 -0500, Russell D. Murphy Jr. wrote: Another datapoint. . . I changed make.conf on, I believe, Dec. 6: # CFLAGS= -O -pipe CFLAGS= -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentiumpro (There's also: COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe) (I gather that -mcpu is redundant.) I re-cvsup,

Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

2001-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:05:44PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: Will be curious to see using -O2 for world and kernel builds will break with the new flags. Matt may have given up on it, but it has been working (again) for months now. Keep expecting it to break, which these changes