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Re: packet recompiles



On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:27:52PM +0100, Peter Keel wrote:
> [sorry for writing the last few messages with a wrong email-address]
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to recompile some essential libraries for Sparc, since
> I know that some of those are meant for V7-architecture, whereas
> binaries for V8 and V9 could be much faster. 
> 
> Now, I'd like to do this the Debian way. The question is:
> if I do "apt-get -b source glibc", which optimizations 
> will be done? Or do I end up with another V7-binary? If
> nothing will be changed, how do I tell the compiler to 
> compile this for V9? (same for openssl and ssh). Preferably
> in a generic way, without modifying the makefiles. 

glibc in unstable is already targeted at v8. You can also install
libc6-sparcv9, but I think it is broken at the moment.

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