On 05/01/2011 08:30 AM, David Timms wrote: > Hi, a user of rakarrack was getting startup exception SIGILL [1]. > > Seems the config/make/compile process for this app checks CPU capability > of the machine it is being compiled on, and applies optimisations that > are available on that processor. > > The user has a much older processor. > > Upstream suggest [2] that distros could add a script to detect runtime > CPU, and call the appropriately compiled executable. > > To do that in rpm, I think I would need to call configure a second time. > Also, the new compile would overwrite the first compile, so it doesn't > seem that easy. > > Any suggestions on a way forward ? Rpm's and Fedora's philosophy is to let rpm specify/dictate CFLAGS, which packages are supposed to respect. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
