Re: Building packages and compiler flags

[Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>]

Carsten Friede wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is it possible to activate specific compiler flags, when building 
> packages from source, eg. for the AltiVec, to improve performance?
> What I want to do, is to compile particular packages with flags 
> according to my iBook G4. My thought is, to get my Debian more 
> customized like Gentoo. What I not want is to compile everything from 
> scratch. I like Debian! :-)
>
> So, can anybody give me a hand?

I just found out about dpkg-divert.
Maybe you could use it to divert gcc and insert there your compiler 
switches.

PS: I indend to revive the debtoo project ;-) , are you in? :-)

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EddyP
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