Re: OpenSSL build error on 8.2

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 03:39:24AM -0700, Erik Fair wrote:
> The standard NetBSD distribution for a given architecture is usually
> least common denominator so that it boots & runs on everything, but
> that won?t take advantage of more powerful features of a given
> architecture?s ?later? revision processors. The older a system, the
> more important to optimize for speed is likely to be.

But on sparc at least we play ld.elf_so tricks (not that this would help
most pkgs) for the worst v7 missing features.

I always used 

.if ${MACHINE} == "sparc"
CPUFLAGS+= -mcpu=supersparc -mtune=supersparc
.endif

in /etc/mk.conf myself to get better pkgs.

Martin