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 -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list