Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well, steve's patch only added `--build $(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)' to the > configure flags. maybe this gets somehow wrong on sparc.
The gcc flags are inconsistent between sparc and x86 (and former gcc maintainers can forget which way round they are...). -mcpu on sparc selects the instruction/register set, not just the tuning as it does on x86. For sparc, -mtune=ultrasparc would be reasonable, on the basis that number crunching normally should be tuned for recent machines. On the other hand, if it can be made to go significantly faster on ultras by compiling with -mcpu=ultrasparc, it would be worth making multiple library versions like openssl does.
