Re: [Cooker] problems with K6 processor ans 2006.1 packages

[Götz Waschk]

2006/1/2, Wurbel Eric <wurbel@univ-tln.fr>:
> 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 ?

Hi,

some packages _require_ a newer processor for the multimedia
instructions and they fail to build without them.

Don't use multimedia stuff on a K6-2, that would be silly. If
something like hal fails, it is a real bug.
CU, Götz
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