On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 07:43, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > wonder what it would take for rpm to allow me to install packages built for > pentium4 on my laptop. has anyone looked into that? It already does that. Here's what i do: I normally don't bother to compile packages optimized for higher architectures. However, sometimes i do bother - that's when building multimedia stuff, such as codecs and media libraries. In that case, i use this .rpmrc file in the home directory of the account that builds the packages: optflags: athlon -O3 -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer optflags: i686 -O3 -march=pentium3 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer (i only use pentium3, not pentium4, but you can try that yourself) Then i just build the package using the --target=athlon parameter for rpmbuild. The package will actually be built for AthlonXP. I rename it to *.athlon-xp.rpm (only to make the optimization obvious, there's no other reason) and then put it in the FTP repository or install it or whatever. Same for Pentium3: i use -target=i686 but the package is generated with Pentium3 optimizations. Rename to *.pentium3.rpm, install, done. You need a fairly new gcc for all that. The one in RH9 should be ok. "man gcc" is your friend -- Florin Andrei "Never send a human to do a machine's job." - Agent Smith -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
