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Curtis Napier wrote: |
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> I could find a million threads in the forums supporting what Ciaran is |
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> saying here. We have been told over and over and over until my head |
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> feels bashed in that MMX/SSE, etc... are NOT TO BE PUT IN CFLAGS!! THAT |
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> IS WHAT USE FLAGS ARE FOR!!!! |
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> Every developer who has ever commented on one of these threads has |
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> always agreed with that. Put it in USE not CLFAGS. |
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That's because CFLAGS="-msse" currently doesn't do what the user would think it |
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does. Which is the real problem, which we're solving with the change Diego |
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suggested. |
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> To change this behavior now after all this time would be crazy IMHO. |
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It might have become some sort of policy, but if the policy doesn't have a |
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god-like status. Sometimes it becomes obsolete and new (better) rules are put in |
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place. |
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Kind Regards, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Developer |
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