Hi all, Tony White wrote:
>> Maybe we should talk about solutions even if we can't implement them at >> the moment? >> >> a) patch the config.guess script. >> can be easy but won't catch everything >> >> b) patch the stuff config.guess is using >> requires patching gcc and assembler because the CPUID processor >> instruction can't be faked. Thus gcc and the assemblers must be >> taught to rewrite this instruction by a set of instruction returning a >> constsant but similar string. >> >> c) cross compile everything from x86 to x86 or such. >> I guess too much work. cross compiling can cause a lot of problem >> because the majority of packages isn't cross compiled often except the >> most basic ones (?) >> >> Can you think about other solutions? >> > > Hi Marc, > How about moving upstream with it and being polite. :) Yes, gmp's CPU detection in configure is probably a problem for other distributors as well. The only other package I know with this issue (MPlayer) has a flag --enable-runtime-cpudetection to turn off the build-time CPU detection. It would be nice if gmp had that as well. -- Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/ _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
