On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> Hey,
>
> As I posted several days ago, I'm fond applying RH updates buy
> downloading the src.rpm and compiling it for i686. I just now tried
> compiling glibc as i686 and it fails. It makes me really mad that RH
> releases updates that don't work. How long can it take to make a
> simple test of the various architectures?
>
RedHat makes sure the packages compile for the different processors, but
doesn't check to make sure the package can be optimized for anything
except a 386 and 486 on intel. This is reasionable. A test to see if
they will compile optimized for a 586, or higher is easy. Getting the
packages to compile optimized this way is another story.
>
[snip]
>
> Please! For all the money we pay you, you could at least make sure
> packages compile :-(
>
You can compile the packages. All the packages will compile optimized
for a 486 (on Intel). It isn't RedHats job to make sure they will
compile optimized for a 586, 686, etc. What we pay Red Hat for is the
packaging the varius packages into a distribution, and for support. If
you want a distribution optimized for a 586, check out Mandrake. I
don't think they are optimized for a 686 - I haven't looked for a while.
>
> [snip]
>
> Is there any known good reason to not compile it for i686? If so,
> what, and what other packages shouldn't be optimized?
>
Yes, it doesn't compile correctly, and may not run correctly.
>
> Thanks,
>
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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