On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:34 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >> Jakub Jelinek wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 09:55:27AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >>>> >>>> Except of very few rare exceptional cases you don't have to know it. >>>> And when, you can always manually add --build to these package's specs. >>> >>> There are plenty of packages that care, usually to pick up optimized >>> assembly for various CPUs, or whether it is possible to use atomic >>> instructions or not. > > Forgot to add something: This would be --host, not --build > > If these packages are using --build to pick up optimizations, they would be > optimizing for the buildsystem, not for the host. --host defaults to --build. See ./configure --help. -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
