begin: Gabriel Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> 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?
of course. this is debian. you can do anything.
apt-get -b source mypackage (-b == --custom)
> could I easily recompile all (or nearly all) my existing packages in a similar
> manner?
easily? i dunno. you may have to play around with something like dpkg -l
"*" | grep -v escription | awk { print $0 }
> if not, (or even if yes), should i bother?
absolutely not. only the choicest of packages will benefit. i don't know if
'ls' or 'cp' would benefit at all. otoh, gcc just might.
> 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?
give it go. just don't do it on a system you care about.
pete
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