Re: Patch for egcs-1.1.2-30 to fix build problem

2000-04-27 Thread Steven Boswell
> Ok, ignore the last message... I misunderstood that you meant getting > all the .spec files set so the optflags settings were always passed > down (and making sure --target i[456]86 actually worked) > > Sorry for my confusion :) No problem! Enclosed in this letter are the two patches necessar

[fm] lilo 0.21.4.2

2000-04-27 Thread Levente Farkas
hi, it'd be nice to see in the updates directory since it was big problem for many people. http://www.freshmeat.net/news/2000/04/26/956756732.html -- lfarkas "The only thing worse than not knowing the truth is ruining the bliss of ignorance." -- To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL P

Patch for egcs-1.1.2-30 to fix build problem

2000-04-27 Thread Steven Boswell
While trying to recompile egcs-1.1.2-30, I noticed it didn't quite build right. There were a few shared libraries that it didn't compile but yet still wanted to put into packages, and at one point it tried to use the new g++ compiler while still mostly configured for the old one. (Plus, it would

Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-04-27 Thread Steven Boswell
Wow, thanks for all the info, everyone! I think I'm still going to go through all the work of compiling i586/i686 versions of thingsI want to set up a network file server that contains Linux installations for i386/i486/i586/i686, and allow desktop clients to mount the appropriate architecture

Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-04-27 Thread JF Martinez
> > I would imagine that just compiling ghostscript for i686 isn't enough; > one would also have to recompile things it depends on (like libc) in > order to really tell whether there was an improvement. > But when you compile benchmarks (even those who make minimal use of the library) you find

Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-04-27 Thread John Summerfield
> I would imagine that just compiling ghostscript for i686 isn't enough; > one would also have to recompile things it depends on (like libc) in > order to really tell whether there was an improvement. I do not think recompiling libc will make a noticible difference either; any time ghostscript s

Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-04-27 Thread JF Martinez
> > Hello all! I searched the mailing list archives and found a few > discussions of this topic, way back when, but there weren't any > satisfactory answers. I'm wondering...why does RedHat not natively > support i586 and i686 builds? (They do in the kernel, but that appears > to be the *only*

Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-04-27 Thread Steven Boswell
I would imagine that just compiling ghostscript for i686 isn't enough; one would also have to recompile things it depends on (like libc) in order to really tell whether there was an improvement. In any case, if I go through the work to get the source RPMs to produce i586 and i686 code, does anyon

Re: Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-04-27 Thread Thomas Dodd
Steven Boswell wrote: > about them. But is that the kind of change RedHat even wants? They're > not supporting it now; do they have a good reason that hasn't occurred > to me? Not many packages really benifit from the optimizations. The kerenel was only split in the 6.x series (I think) Prior

Why no i586/i686 support?

2000-04-27 Thread Steven Boswell
Hello all! I searched the mailing list archives and found a few discussions of this topic, way back when, but there weren't any satisfactory answers. I'm wondering...why does RedHat not natively support i586 and i686 builds? (They do in the kernel, but that appears to be the *only* place.) I l

Re: rpm excludedocs

2000-04-27 Thread Matt Wilson
edit /usr/lib/rpm/macros, go to the commented line that says: # Boolean (i.e. 1 == "yes", 0 == "no") that controls whether files # marked as %doc should be installed. #%_excludedocs and make it: %_excludedocs 1 Maximum RPM is out of date. Matt On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 01:5

rpm excludedocs

2000-04-27 Thread Michael Redinger
Hi, I just tried to change the Red Hat Boot disk to not install the documentation files. I thought this would be quite simple - gunzip netstg2.img, mount it as loopback device, edit usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc and add the following line: excludedocs: 1 (This option is documented in Maximum RPM (rpmrc-f