Hi. I hope I'm in the right place. Since I'm going to be building a bunch of programs anyway, I would like to build packages optimized for my particular machine, with the compiler getting -march=athlon as well as -O3 (unless the latter is not safe; I'm using gcc 2.95.4).
What is the debian way to do this when I'm building packages from source? And, using kernel-package, how do I build kernels and modules appropriately? Should I build packages that have subarchitecture names? I notice in particular that debian has an architecture concept meaning the different architectures we support (e.g., sparc, s/390 ....) and I don't want to inadvertently mess with that. I saw an older post that messing with /usr/bin/dpgk-architecture is not the way to go. By the way, I believe it is safe to mix code I've optimized with regular unoptimized libraries (i.e., regular debs). Let me know if not. I also understand that I can't mix code from different versions of gcc, at least not C++ from 3.2. So I should stick with 2.95 unless I want to rebuild every package I use--correct? Thanks in advance for any guidance. P.S. Does anybody know if the optimizations are likely to make any difference? I've started doing stuff with graphics, and it is noticeably slow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
