matt, now this is a true gem of wisdom. thanks for sharing this with the
group.
somewhere a debian mirror site maintainer scratches his head and wonders why
300 requests have just come in to install pentium-builder. all from northern
california. how odd... ;)
pete
begin: Matt Roper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote
> 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.
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