Effects of CPUTYPE

[Mark Ovens]

For months now I've been having ever increasing problems with software 
(ports) stopping working - or not working properly; xorg, digikam, 
jalbum, etc.

The problems are the same on 6.3-STABLE and a brand new, clean install 
of 7.0. Searching mailing lists and Google makes me think that a lot of 
these problems are specific to my system.

Trying to identify why I should be having all these problems I've been 
looking for anything that may be specific to my machine. One thing I've 
come up with is the fact that I have CPUTYPE?=athlon-mp in 
/etc/make.conf on both 6.3 and 7.0.

I understand that this optimizes compilation for that CPU but can this 
potentially cause problems? Is this a possible cause of strange 
problems? All my ports are built from source rather than from packages 
so are built with this option.

Regards,

Mark