Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

[Calvin Spealman]

but amd64 is itself an extension of the x86 architecture, isn't that the case? amd64 chips run x86 code, i'm sure. do they not support those extensions? I understand that for some reason the USE flags are irrelevent here, but I don't understand why and it is starting to drive me crazy because I'm just missing something here.

On 4/30/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:29:36 +0000 Calvin Spealman
< [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Are the things that are automatically enabled for compilation
| different than  the things the USE flags enable?
| If these things are automatic, then why have the flags at all?

The flags are relevant for x86. They are not relevant for amd64.

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