Having just been given (yeah, RIGHT!) :) an athlon 1ghz based system, I was wondering about the state of Athlon-based optimizers for gcc on Linux. I did find the Athlon Linux project's home page, and did manage to find patches (albeit old ones) for gcc 2.95.2. The build went reasonably well with the patch installed (only one reject in version.c), but when running the built version, the athlon flags are just not available. gcc -v says it's getting the specs from i686-mandrake-linux and if I go into that directory, I see a spec file that does seem to list various Athlon machine types, so supposedly I should be able to use -mcpu=athlon. Unfortunately, gcc doesn't know what to do with this option. I figure I must have missed a step somewhere. Help appreciated - or if not, does there exist a set of gcc RPMs with Athlon patches for gcc? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED] change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. -----------------------------------------------------------------------
