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From: Dan Armak <ermak@×××××××××××××.il>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] make.conf optimization flags for k6, athlon
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 01:10:24
Message-Id: 01071410100900.00576@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] make.conf optimization flags for k6, athlon by Daniel Robbins
1 On Saturday 14 July 2001 00:37, you wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:59:53PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
3 > > > -march=k6 will cause the i586 build to *not* run on a Pentium Classic
4 > > > or MMX, which is why we don't use it. However, just the -mcpu=k6
5 > > > should work on anything.
6 > >
7 > > I understand that, it reinforces what I said. People who compile from
8 > > build snapshots should set more 'exact' optimization settings, and
9 > > make.conf's comments should tell them to do so.
10 >
11 > Ah, I misunderstood. I agree. Since you now have CVS access, feel free to
12 > add commented-out K6 optimizations to
13 > /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/1.5/cnf/make.conf :)
14 >
15 I added it. I also added an i386 option. Does anyone know why the options
16 started from 486 initially? Is there a problem in using 386 (with a math
17 coprocessor)?
18
19 Dan Armak

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] make.conf optimization flags for k6, athlon Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] make.conf optimization flags for k6, athlon Hendrik Visage <hvisage@×××××××××××.za>