5.1 on a 386
John Nielsen
john at jnielsen.net
Thu Jun 12 12:25:24 PDT 2003
Hi folks-
I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm mostly doing it as a
learning exercise (or perhaps because I'm a masochist), but the machine may
be used as a firewall at some point. I have the OS installed with a custom
kernel, and things are actually going quite well.
There are (of course) some problems though. Most of the userland utilities
work great, but some just dump core. The one I miss in particular is groff
(for manpages, etc). I suspect that the problems are a result of CPU
instructions that the poor 386 doesn't understand.
I do have a separate build machine (soon to be running 5.1 as well), so I'd
like to recompile everything (kernel, userland, and
ports-to-be-made-into-packages) for the 386 with the appropriate flags to
gcc and friends. Hopefully that will take care of the issues I'm seeing.
So my question is, what flags should I use and where should I put them? I'd
like to be able to switch easily between builds for the 386 and "normal"
builds (for everything else). Can I just put an override in /etc/make.conf
or do I have to futz with /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk? (In the case of the
latter, detailed hints would be appreciated.. I don't grok Make all that
well yet.)
Thanks,
JN
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