On 02/06/14 06:58 AM, Martti Kühne wrote: > On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Yamakaky <yamakaky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I just discovered the gcc option march=native. It enables all the >> local-supported optimizations, without downsides except the non-portability >> of the binaries. Is there a reason why it isn't enabled by default, as cross >> platform compilation isn't used by most of the users (I think) ? >> >> Yamakaky > > > Cross platform compilation is a requirement for the most important of > makepkg's users, namely our package maintainers... > > cheers! > mar77i The official packages are built in a clean container with the makepkg configuration files in the devtools package. In the past, portability issue would have been a factor. I do think the status quo of having it match the devtools flags is perfectly fine, as it's trivial to replace `-march=x86_64 -mtune=generic` with `-march=native`.
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