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

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 10:07:04AM +0200, Stefan Bethke wrote:
> >I think he is right, because when upgrading host where was gcc3.2 to
> >current -CURRENT (with gcc3.3) 'make world' builds make(1) in first
> >place and it is builded by gcc3.2 with CPUTYPE=p4, so it will be broken.
> >
> >So gcc have to be upgraded in first place (with CPUTYPE=p3).
> 
> Hhm, sounds reasonable.
> 
> However, I had the exact same problem updating from a 5.1-RC to a recent 
> current on a P III 900, and there, I had CPUTYPE=p3 in make.conf.

You must have a early 5.1-RC.  Later ones and the release treated
CPUTYPE=p4 as an alias for CPUTYPE=p3.