Questions regarding /etc/make.conf

2004-07-26 Thread Chris
I'm curious - I have an AthlonXP cpu, and I seen on several posts where people have listed, CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp in /etc/make.conf. My question is this, what are the ramifications if I added that to my /etc/make.conf now, after my current device has had nothing in the before mentioned file. How

Re: Questions regarding /etc/make.conf

2004-07-26 Thread Henrik W Lund
Chris wrote: I'm curious - I have an AthlonXP cpu, and I seen on several posts where people have listed, CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp in /etc/make.conf. My question is this, what are the ramifications if I added that to my /etc/make.conf now, after my current device has had nothing in the before

Re: Questions regarding /etc/make.conf

2004-07-26 Thread Mark Ovens
Henrik W Lund wrote: Greetings! No, nothing you put into make.conf will affect already installed software. This file is for setting build-time options, and as such will only affect subsequent software builds. And yes, rebuilding and reinstalling a package you already have qualifies as a

Re: Questions regarding /etc/make.conf

2004-07-26 Thread RacerX
Best regards, Chris On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Henrik W Lund wrote: Chris wrote: I'm curious - I have an AthlonXP cpu, and I seen on several posts where people have listed, CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp in /etc/make.conf. My question is this, what are the ramifications if I added that to my /etc/make.conf now,

RE: Questions regarding /etc/make.conf

2004-07-26 Thread Lucas Holt
Don't worry about recompiling everything right away. Gnome takes a long time to compile! The cpu type does seem to help multimedia apps and WMs if they were designed to take advantage of the extra instructions. I usually get a machine up and then change the cpu type after I have the basics