On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 05:29, Joshua J. Berry wrote: > > I'm going to be getting a new (Pentium 4) laptop relatively soon...and I was > > wondering if it's possible to pre-build P4-optimized packages on my Pentium 3 > > desktop. > > I doubt this is possible. However, you might want to look at distcc > which will allow other machines to share the compilation load or bear it > entirely. >
I know...but I can't really distcc with a laptop I haven't bought yet. :) I
just want a set of packages I can have to get it up more quickly. What I've
decided to do is just compile things for the P3 on my desktop (using my
desktop's USE and CFLAGS), and just transfer the binary packages over and
rebuild them in the background. That way I'll have a functional machine, but
I'll also (eventually) have stuff compiled/optimized for the laptop.
[snip]
>
> > Also, I'd heard rumors to the effect that gcc 3.2 can't generate P4-optimized
> > code correctly. Is this just a rumor, or is there some fact to it?
>
> Gcc 3.2.2 is not to be used with pentium4 flags. However, 3.2.3 and 3.3
> are fine. You may have to wait a little for the latter two to be
> released on stable.
OK, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for the input.
-- Josh
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