On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 03:06:42PM -0500, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings! The good news is that in days, we should have some > optimized atlas blas libraries for a variety of recent processors. > The challenge is how to adapt the package -- when built on an Athlon, > PIII, and PII, the resulting binaries will run only on those > subarchitectures, (and much faster!) I suppose all binaries could be > included in the package, and only the appropriate one installed, but > how does this jive with the automatic build daemons? Such a package > would have to be partially built on several different machines. On > the other hand, I could have several different packages, each of which > would build only on a given subarch, and would produce a distinct > package name. That might not work so well with automated build > daemons either. It doesn't actualy need to be built on different machines. What happens is your configure script auto-detects the processor and optomizes for it. You just need to specificaly tell it what processor to build for and it will ignore the current processor. > > Any suggestions most appreciated. > > > Take care, > > -- > Camm Maguire camm@enhanced.com > ========================================================================== > "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- Erik Bernhardson journey@jps.net -- It is better to remain silent and be considered a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
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