I could be wrong, but I thought that they finally gave up on 386 support and now the base minimum is 486. It could very well be that you can't compile the system for a 386 without significant modification.
Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: 5.1 on a 386 > Hi folks- > > I am setting up FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a 386DX. I'm mostly doing it as a > learning exercise (or perhaps because I'm a masochist), but the machine may > be used as a firewall at some point. I have the OS installed with a custom > kernel, and things are actually going quite well. > > There are (of course) some problems though. Most of the userland utilities > work great, but some just dump core. The one I miss in particular is groff > (for manpages, etc). I suspect that the problems are a result of CPU > instructions that the poor 386 doesn't understand. > > I do have a separate build machine (soon to be running 5.1 as well), so I'd > like to recompile everything (kernel, userland, and > ports-to-be-made-into-packages) for the 386 with the appropriate flags to > gcc and friends. Hopefully that will take care of the issues I'm seeing. > > So my question is, what flags should I use and where should I put them? I'd > like to be able to switch easily between builds for the 386 and "normal" > builds (for everything else). Can I just put an override in /etc/make.conf > or do I have to futz with /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk? (In the case of the > latter, detailed hints would be appreciated.. I don't grok Make all that > well yet.) > > Thanks, > > JN > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
