Re: [Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sonntag, Dezember 1, 2002, at 03:12 Uhr, Jason Deraleau wrote: Jaguar is using gcc 3.1, does anyone know if that version of gcc supports AltiVec specific optimizations? yes, the gcc shipped by apple has proper modifications in place, yet

Re: [Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread Jan de Leeuw
Good. I hope fink will continue to support them. --- Jan On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 01:15 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 12:37 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote: But what about fftw and ATLAS, whose whole purpose in life is to be different on different systems ? What abou

Re: [Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 12:37 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote: But what about fftw and ATLAS, whose whole purpose in life is to be different on different systems ? What about them? There are exceptions to every rule. These were mentioned last time this discussion was held. -Ben -

Re: [Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread Jan de Leeuw
You wrote: Even if optimizations get added, a "make.conf" will not happen, since one of fink's goals is for the resulting .deb files to always be identical no matter what system they are built on. If every host has different optimizations and such, they're no longer the same (and introducing more

Re: [Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 11:14 AM, Jason Deraleau wrote: Is it possible to have at least Fink use it? Perhaps something similar with an /sw/etc/make.conf file that contains the user's preferred gcc flags? Even if optimizations get added, a "make.conf" will not happen, since one of fink's

Re: [Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread Jason Deraleau
JD> Jaguar is using gcc 3.1, does anyone know if that version of gcc supports JD> AltiVec specific optimizations? If so, are Fink packages built for these JD> G4-only extensions? The reason why I'm asking is because I've been playing JD> with Gentoo Linux (gentoo.org), which uses a system somewhat

Re: [Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread Alexander Strange
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 09:12 AM, Jason Deraleau wrote: Jaguar is using gcc 3.1, does anyone know if that version of gcc supports AltiVec specific optimizations? If so, are Fink packages built for these G4-only extensions? The reason why I'm asking is because I've been playing with G