Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Benedikt Morbach
Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. And by the way: Changing CHOST is not worth the trouble. Even if it would be possible in your case,

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:18:17 am Benedikt Morbach wrote: Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. Where do I find a list of

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e world required, your

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or postulates. :') No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead horse. We already

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates or postulates. :') No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead horse. We already know *exactly* what difference it makes - precious little. You

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Graham Murray
Benedikt Morbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST=pentium4-pc-linux-gnu is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. Though looking at /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: Jerry McBride wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a tad bit faster? See Benedikt's

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: Thanks for the offer. I'm almost finished the re-compiling stuff however. Why not post the script anyways? Someone else may be doing the same thing. Cheers. It is attached. It's been around a while so I assume it still works. I put mine in the /root directory

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Are the numbers posted somewhere I can get to? It'd be good reading. Google knows where they are. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list