i386/61306: many binaries crash with "illegal instruction" message (ldexp)

Bruce Evans bde at zeta.org.au
Tue Jan 13 06:58:38 PST 2004


On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Alexander Krotov wrote:

> >Description:
> I have installed 5.2 release yesterday and got a lot of problems
> with different binaries crashing with "illegal instruction" message.
> For example "build world" does not work because awk and troff
> crash. fsck_ufs did crash.

This is most likely caused by compiling ldexp.c for a pentium4 (not
the default).

Bruce


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