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Hi everybody, and happy new year. I've freshly installed a community 2006.0 distro on an "old" K6-2 processor and updated it with the cooker. I ran into severe execution problems concerning the processor instruction set. It seems that a lot of packages are compiled specificaly for processors of a "higher" class (PII ? PIII ? PIV ?...). These packages provoke core dumps on illegal instruction errors on this K6-2, and these problems are always solved by a recompilation of the packages, which can sometimes be a huge task. Are 2006.1 packages deliberately optimized for processor of a higher class that the K6 ? Or is it just that the offending packages uses too aggressive optimizations during the build process ? Thanks in advance for your answers. sincerely yours regards Eric PS: example packages that ran into problems : - ardour (contrib) - caps ladspa plugins (main) - liboil (main) - I suspect that HAL has the same problem, I have to verify this. - ...