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From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck <dystopianray@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Best CFLAGS
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:03:32
Message-Id: 200606230920.51640.dystopianray@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Best CFLAGS by "Thiago Lüttig"
1 On Friday, 23 June 2006 9:04, Thiago Lüttig wrote:
2 > Hi folks, I have an Athlon XP 2600+ with 512MB of RAM and I was wondering
3 > about the best CFLAGS to make my executables "run-like-hell" :).
4 > Does anyone have a machine like this ?? I just can't stand windows XP
5 > anymore on my home box, but i want to put my future gentoo box run faster
6 > than a lightning(or something like that :] )
7 > Thanx.
8
9 The best cflags are those on the safe cflags list at:
10
11 http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags
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13 If you use stupid cflags you will most probably encounter serious breakage and
14 simply be told to revert to the safe cflags and emerge world before you
15 receive much help.
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17 Packages that benefit greatly from certain cflags usually override your cflags
18 with better ones in the ebuild. For example I believe xine-lib will force -O3
19 regardless of what you specify in make.conf.
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22 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
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