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Re: Compiling i686 packages?



On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 07:31:27AM +0200, Mattias Sundberg wrote:
> 
> I sent a mail asking about how to compile i686 Deb packages, due to an
> disfunctional backup attempt I lost all my mailboxes so I don´t know if I
> got any replies so here goes again:
> 
> How do I compile i686 Debian packages using apt-get/dpkg, is it enough
> just to compile the kernel as i686?

its a waste of time, don't bother.  1) it won't buy any sigificant
speed increase in 99.9% of programs.  and 2) there is no i686
optimization AFAIK, only plain jane Pentium optimization which does
not help on PII, PIIIs or any AMD/non-intel chip.

the biggest thing you get out of this type of optimization is
increased unreliability due to miscompilation. 


-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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