Old Computers, -Os, Stripping, and 4-STABLE

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Dec 18 11:45:50 PST 2004


On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 11:58:22AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:48:42AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> >
> > 
> >
> >>1. I'd like to know if it's (relatively) safe to use -Os for CFLAGS and 
> >>COPTFLAGS?
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Only on 5.3 and above.
> >
> >Kris
> > 
> >
> 
> Thanks but I desided to try it anyways, I set -Os for CFLAGS and 
> COPTFLAGS and cvsup'd 4-STABLE, built world and kernel with no build 
> errrors and no other problems after reboot, then I cvsup'd and did a 
> rebuild of all my ports, again no problems. I even rebuilt my kernel 
> becouse I had some options I needed to add/remove, again no problems.

OK, but remember to recompile everything with the standard -O setting
if you run into problems, before you report them to the mailing list.
You won't win any friends when you report a bug that turns out to be
your own fault :-)

Kris
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