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[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:45, Sven Hazejager wrote:
> I'm about to upgrade a (slow) Pentium based FreeBSD computer from 4.8 to
> 4.10. I would like to use my (fast) Athlon PC as a buildworld/buildkernel
> host and then mount /usr/src and /usr/obj on the slow computer.
>
> The Athlon PC runs a 4.10 world, built with pentiumpro optimizations. If I
> buildworld with pentium optimizations, does that newly built world rely on
> any pentiumpro optimized libraries of the Athlon PC base? That would
> surely hose the Pentium PC!

I don't think that the build system will add compiler flags for this sort of 
thing in 4.x, so I believe what you want to do is safe.

If you are doing buildworld for the Pentium then remove any arch/cpu specific 
optimisations and you should be right.

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