Re: Signal 4 installing kernel/world built for different cputype

From: Charles Swiger (cswiger_at_mac.com)
Date: 09/16/04

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    Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:36:31 -0400
To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>

    On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:17 PM, John Nielsen wrote:
    > I use a build machine to build world and kernels for other, slower
    > machines. The build machine is an Athlon Thunderbird running
    > 5.3-BETA4,
    > and I'd like to upgrade the other machines to 5.3 as well. I have
    > compiled everything that runs on the build system with
    > CPUTYPE?=athlon-tbird.
    >
    > When I do a buildworld/buildkernel for a pentium machine with
    > CPUTYPE=i586
    > on make's command line, it looks like I get incompatible binaries in
    > obj/usr/src/i386/legacy/usr/bin.

    This is not surprising. You need to set your CPUTYPE to the lowest
    common denominator of CPUs which you want the compiled code to run on. 

    -- 
-Chuck
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