On Sat, Jul 04, 2015 at 03:08:14AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > A while back on IRC, Ludovic agreed to my proposal to pass --build to > configure by default in gnu-build-system, a change to be made hopefully > in the next core-updates cycle. After that, config.guess will not be > used.
That sounds good to me and would indeed render my patch superfluous. > As for NEON, I had originally followed Debian's armhf decision to > compile code that doesn't require NEON support, but have since changed > my mind about that. It seems that the Debian porters made that decision > to support a couple of hardware devices that may have been important at > the time, but that time has passed. I've since learned that NEON is a > common target for modern highly optimized ARM assembly code, and that we > should assume it as a baseline. I agree with that. Andreas
