Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > Are the numbers posted somewhere I can get to? It'd be good reading. Google knows where they are. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: > > Thanks for the offer. I'm almost finished the re-compiling stuff however. Why > not post the script anyways? Someone else may be doing the same thing. > > Cheers. > > It is attached. It's been around a while so I assume it still works. I put mine in the /root direct

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:35:34 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates > > or postulates. :') > > No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead > horse. We alre

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > Should be interesting... It'll lay to rest what everyone speculates > or postulates. :') No need. Been done. Question answered long ago. You are beating a dead horse. We already know *exactly* what difference it makes - precious little. You w

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:28:01 am Dale wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > >>> Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a > >>> tad bit faster? > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Graham Murray
"Benedikt Morbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > no, it would not. > gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" > is not a valid CHOST. > CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a > look at CFLAGS. Though looking at /usr/share/gnuconfi

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Dale
Jerry McBride wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: >> >>> Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a >>> tad bit faster? >>> >> See Benedikt's answer for why you should n

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:40:30 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a > > tad bit faster? > > See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. > > If you did get it all

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: > Would the compiler then be optimized for the pentium4 and thus run a > tad bit faster? See Benedikt's answer for why you should not go down this road. If you did get it all to work right, and suffered through the emerge -e world required, your

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:18:17 am Benedikt Morbach wrote: > Hi, > > no, it would not. > gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" > is not a valid CHOST. > CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a > look at CFLAGS. > Where do I find a l

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Benedikt Morbach
Hi, no, it would not. gcc would simply refuse to work, because CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" is not a valid CHOST. CHOST describes the platform you build on. For optimizations take a look at CFLAGS. And by the way: Changing CHOST is not worth the trouble. Even if it would be possible in your case

[gentoo-user] CHOST question.

2008-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
Morning... A small question to satisfy my curiosity about the CHOST setting in /etc/make.conf... Currently I have CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" on a computer with a pentium4 processor. Would it make any differences, at all, to change this to CHOST="pentium4-pc-linux-gnu" ? Would the compiler th