On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 01:33, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, [iso-8859-1] hicham linux wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the long and longer answers :) > > > so even if I download the i686 kernel glibc rpms > > > it won't change much ? > > > > You *should* use i686 kernel, glibc, and openssl if you have an i686. In > > fact, they should have been the ones that got installed. Most other RPMs > > I'm not 100% sure about glibc and openssl, but for the kernel the i686 > part isn't so much for the gcc options, but for more generic cpu > optimisations and support (although of course the gcc options are there; > and the extra cmov instruction gcc can use for i686 does improve things > a tiny bit). Not sure, but I think that's also true of openssl. glibc for i386 does not support the new NPTL thread library, so that's a huge reason to use the i686 version if you can. BTW, never upgrade the original i686 glibc to the updated i386 one. It makes an unholy mess (as reported in another recent thread). -- 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
