Bug#506481: initscripts: Fix to allow falsified cpu information in /proc/cpuinfo
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:21:44PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> reassign 506481 general
> thanks
>
> [Matthias Klose]
> >> Right. This seem to be a problem that need to be solved by the
> >> compiler, and not by initscripts. Reassigning to gcc.
> >
> > this has nothing to do with the compiler, which is built for a fixed
> > arch/tune setting.
>
> Right. If the compiler is not the entity deciding what architecture
> and CPU feature set a program is build for, I have no idea what is.
> It is definitely not the initscripts package, so I reassign this to
> 'general' in the hope that someone know more about this than me.
This is most likely a bug in the package. Some configure scripts
and simular tools tried to detect the cpu at build time and
pass options to gcc to change the default. This is always wrong
for a Debian package. If this is about a Debian package you should
file a bug against the package that has this problem.
Kurt
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