Re: dpkg thinks my pentium is an i486 ?
Bill Leach wrote:
> Joost Kooij wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote:
> >
> > [A very interesting and informative expose, thanks Joost!]
> >
> > As it works now (as I understand) the rules makefile effectively tries to
> > make the build independent of the actual machine it is built on. Of course
> > this is great for maintainers who create a binary for distribution.
> >
> > It would also be nice to have an easy way to rebuild a package as user and
> > have the building optimized for the particular machine that the user has.
> >
> > If the rules file could take standard parameters like the cc to use,
> > optimization flags to use, another architecture altogether than the
> > machine on which is built etc., that would be a nifty thing to have.
> I'm not so sure that it doesn't. That is certainly well within the
> capabilities of make itself...
The capabilities of make are of cource not the issue here. The point is
that this would need about 1500 packages to be changed.
But I guess one could just locally change the gcc specification file
(don't know much about that, but I do know one can locally set certain
options in there, to change gcc's defaults), and have it work
for most packages (only the ones that really say "gcc -m486" or whatever
will fail then. Most pages just call gcc without machine name).
--
joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different
than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.
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