On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 08:13:13PM +0200, Matus fantomas Uhlar wrote: > -> Look at how the atlas2 package does this.
> I did it - it seems it has multiple modules for multiple instruction sets. > However, that would require me to recompile those packages which sems like > no good idea (it will be already better to accept some unclean solution) Look more closely - the processor-specific versions just drop in and replace the generic versions of the libraries. All the user has to do is install whichever version is appropriate for their CPU. > -> ld.so has a rather nice > -> feature that allows processor optimised versions of libraries to be > -> installed in parallel with generic ones and automatically located at > I know about this feature, but only that it exists (just searched docs and > did not find anything about it) What Atlas is actually doing is altering /etc/ld.so.conf - see the README.Debian in one of the optimised packages. It may be that for your library you can just use the built-in libc mechanism (which are mentioned in the Atlas README.Debian). -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."
