Hey all, here's a question that i've been thinking about for a couple of weeks but haven't looked into yet:
I know that all the x86 debian packages are compiled for the lowest common denominator. However, I'd like to take advantage of anything gcc can do to optimize for my fancy pentium+ chip. is there a simple way to tell apt-get to build packages from source, then install? could I easily recompile all (or nearly all) my existing packages in a similar manner? if not, (or even if yes), should i bother? I would be willing to write a script to do this for me, but maybe this is something that someone else has already looked into? thanks for any input, -Gabe
