"Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > As I posted several days ago, I'm fond applying RH updates buy
> > downloading the src.rpm and compiling it for i686. I just now tried
> > compiling glibc as i686 and it fails. It makes me really mad that RH
> > releases updates that don't work. How long can it take to make a
> > simple test of the various architectures?
> >
> RedHat makes sure the packages compile for the different processors, but
> doesn't check to make sure the package can be optimized for anything
> except a 386 and 486 on intel. This is reasionable. A test to see if
> they will compile optimized for a 586, or higher is easy. Getting the
> packages to compile optimized this way is another story.
Our glibc 2.2 packages for Red Hat Linux 7 comes in two flavors: i386
and i686.
> > Please! For all the money we pay you, you could at least make sure
> > packages compile :-(
We'd rather spend the time testing that programs continue to run, no
new bugs are introduced etc. on multiple architectures and releases
than that it will compile with custom flags.
>
> You can compile the packages. All the packages will compile optimized
> for a 486 (on Intel). It isn't RedHats job to make sure they will
> compile optimized for a 586, 686, etc. What we pay Red Hat for is the
> packaging the varius packages into a distribution, and for support. If
> you want a distribution optimized for a 586, check out Mandrake. I
> don't think they are optimized for a 686 - I haven't looked for a
> while.
Red Hat Linux 7 is ("-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686"), with criticial
packages like glibc and kernel optimized futher.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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