On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:44 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:28:10 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 16:05 +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote:
> | > There are currently only two ebuilds that support sse on amd64, and
> | > those package (and all to come) will do this:
> | >
> | > "use amd64 && myconf="${myconf} --enable-sse",
> |
> | What if amd64 users don't want the sse enabled? They're just SOL then?
>
> USE flags are only there to offer choice where such a thing is sane. If
> there aren't any non-SSE amd64 CPUs then a USE flag is pointless. The
> asm USE flags are so that we can build, say, i686 stages on a pentium 4
> machine without having problems.
How about, "I don't want to enable SSE because my version of gcc has
problems with it."
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