On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, John Haxby wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> >On Saturday 18 October 2003 09:07, hicham linux uttered:
> >
> >
> >>would like to know what's the easy and straight way to
> >>compile the RH9 rpms sources for an i686 ?
> >>will I gain in speed ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Short answer, no.
> >
> Long answer: they're already optimised for an i686.
>
> Even longer answer: There are very few RPMs that benefit from being
> compiled for i686 so that they won't run on other architectures. Only
> three Red Hat RPMs spring to mind: the kernel, glibc and openssh -- and
^^^^^^^openssl
> surprisingly enough these come in i686-specific variants.
>
> jch
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