Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daniel Iliev <danny@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:51:53
Message-Id: 451A110B.2080401@ilievnet.com
1 Hello, everyone!
2
3 It's my first mail to this list. I hope the community here is as
4 friendly as the one at the general "gentoo-user" list ;-)
5 Please, forgive me if open some threads about already discussed issues
6 until I catch up with rhythm of the list.
7
8 So let me start a with 2 newbie questions caused by my first impressions
9 from the x86_64 world:
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11 1) I use CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -msse3
12 -m3dnow -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fpic". Portage complains
13 with *red letters* about the fpic flag. Every time I emerge something it
14 says that "fpic breaks things", but I haven't met a single breakage so
15 far. Is that a bug? Actually there was an ebuild which could not be
16 compiled if mysql was compiled w/o "fpic". I'm not 100% sure but AFAIR
17 it was dev-perl/DBD-mysql.
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19 2) I see too many flags that are disabled by the profile - the kind with
20 the parenthesis around them, like "(-3dnow)". Why? As I mentioned above
21 I enable some of these through my CFLAGS - e.g. (-mmx), (-mmxext),
22 (-sse) and (-sse2) and everything works perfect.
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org
Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions "Dice R. Random" <dicerandom@×××××.com>
[gentoo-amd64] Re: First Impressions Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions Christoph Mende <ch.mende@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions Pawel Kraszewski <Gentoo@××××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions "Hemmann