make.conf for 6.0

Chris chrcoluk at gmail.com
Tue Oct 25 22:34:25 PDT 2005


On 25/10/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:57:27PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> > On 22/10/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> > > dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > > > My make.conf contains (fbsd-5.4)
> > > > CFLAGS= -O -pipe
> > > > COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
> > > >
> > > > Are these settings the same for the upcoming release6 or do I need to
> > > > set -O2 in this new version?
> > >
> > > FreeBSD is moving towards "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing" by default [1], but there
> > > is nothing wrong with using "-O" only.  On most platforms, there isn't much
> > > difference between -O and -O2, although -O2 does help more with the x86
> > > architecture.
> > >
> > > --
> > > -Chuck
> > >
> > Hmm so using "-O2" is bad in 5.4 and it should be "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing"?
>
> If you use any third-party software, yes.  i.e. FreeBSD itself is
> fine, but not ports.
>
> Kris
>
>
>

Ok thanks I already use it for ports, but just plain -O2 -pipe for the
world and kernel.

Chris


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