On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 07:18:06AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> 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)
>
Also note that you should install the 'pentium-builder' package before
you start building packages from source. From the description of
pentium-builder:
Replaces gcc, cc, and g++ with scripts that build pentium optimized code.
(Other processors can be optimized for as well.)
.
By default, after installing this package, the compilers will behave
normally. However, if the environment variable DEBIAN_BUILDARCH=pentium
is set, they will enter pentium optimized compile mode.
Matt
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