Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] smp in USE?
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 04:44:12
Message-Id: 87g0d1c3qo.fsf@codefactory.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] smp in USE? by AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 AGottinger@××××××××.de (Achim Gottinger) writes:
2
3 > Mikael Hallendal wrote:
4 > > Hi!
5 > >
6 > > While looking over the GIMP ebuild (which seemed to have some wierd
7 > >depends) I found that it can be configured with --with-mp which will
8 > >make GIMP better use an SMP-machine. It will give a little processor
9 > >overhead on a non-smp machine.
10 > >
11 > > Perhaps we should add 'smp' to USE and make a check in the
12 > >ebuild. Any more packages which can make use of that use-flag?
13 > >
14 > Good idea,
15 >
16 > But I suggest we call the use flag smp, cuz that is more descriptive.
17
18 Huh, what did I say? :)
19
20 /M