On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote:
> But, the main problem is that the BuildRequires aren't accurate at the
> moment in cooker. Without the correct BuilRequires you're going to
> encounter many compile problems. I'm working on fixing them at the
> moment, but There are still +/- 380 packages that aren't compiling....
I am worried because I have done a full install of all packages at one
point and still get many compile errors. I wonder how the package
maintainers built the packages in the first place... certainly not in a
true 8.0 environment.
> At the moment I'm rebuilding without any -devel package installed (let
> urpmi install what's required by BuildRequires). If you're interested, I
> can share the script and setup with you...
>
> Stefan
Sure, you may e-mail the script directly if you wish. It is probably in
perl, which is not my strong suit, but maybe an excuse to learn? I will
definately test it anyway.
The idea would be that you only needed basic compiler et. al, anything
that was downloaded as a binary, for example gcc, would be compiled at the
final stage of the install, after all the other packages were built
successfully. Again, without an optimized compiler, you may also fail to
get optimized packages, but as I have said in pervious e-mails, lots of
packages have problems with some optimizations thata re supposedly safe,
meaning they will fail to compile. So the question becomes, if only the
optflags that were originally used are safe, what benefits do we get from
recompiling? In my case I wonder if -march=athlon -O2 is even faster than
-O3 -march=pentiumpro. Again, in some cases we are talking a 'mere' 5%
increase, but I have always thought one of the main advantages to having
the source code was so that you could make the most from your hardware.
In any case, I will galdly test your script and report any problems.
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Sincerely,
David Walluck
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