CPUTYPE considered harmful? (was: Lot's of SIGILL, SIGSEGV)

[leafy]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:07:04AM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> Removing CPUTYPE eventually gave me back working systems (I did restore 
> 5.1-R bits prior to make world). Unfortunatly, I don't have the resources 
> to investigate this further, but for the time being, I will not use CPUTYPE 
> until others can confirm it's safe :-)
> 
> 
> Thanks all,
> Stefan
CPUTYPE in gcc32 is like a landmine. But ever since gcc33 import, CPUTYPE=p4
has yet to fail me. I use it for both world and ports.

Regards,

Jiawei Ye

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"Without the userland, the kernel is useless."
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