Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Suggestion for better compiling.

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 06/17/2003 03:25:50 PM Bruce Smith wrote:
>In menuconfig, submenu: "Build System Configuration", there is an opti=
on
>that allows you to select your CPU.  I've been building all of my beta=
s
>as i686 because my home firewall is a celeron.
>
>It _appears_ the CPU option only effects the kernel compile, and it
>would seem like all heavily used packages would benefit from this.

*beep* wrong ! ;-)

Take a look at scripts/prepare and search for "uname" ( without the quo=
tes
*lol*).
The complete DL System is build for the specific CPU.

>FWIW, The following Redhat packages come with optional i686 RPM's:
>kernel, glibc and openssl.
>
>It would seem like the DL CPU option should apply to at least all thre=
e
>of those packages.  (and it appears not to effect any of them, as far =
as
>I can tell)

At least.... ;-)

>Is this something we should change?

Nope ;-)

cya
  Heiko
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