On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:27:52PM +0100, Peter Keel wrote: > [sorry for writing the last few messages with a wrong email-address] > > Hello > > I'm trying to recompile some essential libraries for Sparc, since > I know that some of those are meant for V7-architecture, whereas > binaries for V8 and V9 could be much faster. > > Now, I'd like to do this the Debian way. The question is: > if I do "apt-get -b source glibc", which optimizations > will be done? Or do I end up with another V7-binary? If > nothing will be changed, how do I tell the compiler to > compile this for V9? (same for openssl and ssh). Preferably > in a generic way, without modifying the makefiles.
glibc in unstable is already targeted at v8. You can also install libc6-sparcv9, but I think it is broken at the moment. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
