Re: Generating PPro instructions with CPUTYPE=i586?

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:12:20 -0700
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:55:13PM +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> While trying to build a -CURRENT release for my aging Pentium 150
> router box on my substantially faster Athlon XP box, I ran into the
> following problem.
> 
> I'm using CPUTYPE=i586 in /etc/make.conf, since the target box is not
> even capable of doing MMX. However, when the build is complete and I
> try to installkernel on the target box, the install tools all bomb out
> with SIGILLs. For example,

Host tools (used for the installworld ) are linked against the
existing host libraries, which in your case are compiled for an
athlon.  If you want to install on another system, you need to build
world (or at least the static libraries) on your athlon without
optimizations.

Kris
Received on Thu Aug 28 2003 - 11:12:25 UTC

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