On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 02:10, Leon Brooks wrote:
> On Saturday 29 March 2003 20:28, Buchan Milne wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >> * One-click/one-command rebuild-the-distro-optimized command. This should
> >>   have the option of either rebuilding RPMs for everything it has an SRPM
> >>   to hand for, or rebuilding just the instaklled packages - and
> >>   consequently rebuild URPMI updates if need be.
> 
> > Of course optimisation is not necessarily worthwhile, so I think correctly
> > packaging software which *does* take advantage of optimisations would be
> > better.
> 
> How? A likes-optimisation RPM spec tag?
> 
>     LikesOptimised: CPU=i686 SSE

No, by doing it like the stuff in /lib and /lib/i686. For
optimisation-sensitive stuff, compile a version with MMX optimisation
and one without, install one in a subdir of the other, and pick the
appropriate one based on whether the CPU tells the kernel it's i686.
-- 
adamw


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