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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 19:21, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On 8/31/05, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> |
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wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > before you panic, have you tried the firefox-bin packet with the same |
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> > site? |
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> > |
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> > Maybe nspluginviewer is the culprit? I had to kill it so many times I |
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> > can't remember. |
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> Thanks Volker. I'll give it a try. |
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> I'm still interested in the right way to really set up these flags |
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> though. I was looking at some of the online docs and found stuff like |
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> this in some emails: |
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> "I'm compiling currently with -mfpmath=387 -msse -mcpu=pentium3 |
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> -march=pentium3 and gcc 3.1.1-4 from the very latest experimental |
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> cygwin distribution." |
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> Obviously I'm not intested in cygwin, etc., but when I saw -msse it |
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> made me wonder if I was supposed to change my CFLAGS line from |
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> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" |
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> to |
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> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmx -msse -msse2" |
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> I understand that the USE flags control what options are built into a |
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> pachage, but in the case of CPU flags do they also control the |
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> compiler flags that are used to build the package? Not being a |
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> programmer this is one part I'm confused about. |
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AFAIK the CFLAGS ONLY control the optimiziation, while the USEFLAGS only |
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control the configuration - if somebody built in some optimiziation for |
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mmx/sse, fine, this would be 'activated' by the useflags, not the cflags. |
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hm, about your CFLAGs, I suppose, -march=pentium4 already sets them (mmx/sse), |
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but this is something easily found in man gcc ;) |
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