Bug#833850: dpkg-dev: add per-architecture optimisation flags to dpkg-buildflags

2016-11-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 11:44:00AM +, Ximin Luo wrote: > >> Many software packages (e.g. see #833846) like to set optimisation flags > >> based > I was exaggerating sorry. "some" would match better what I saw myself > directly. ah. (happens all the time :) > As for detection, we could get

Bug#833850: dpkg-dev: add per-architecture optimisation flags to dpkg-buildflags

2016-11-05 Thread Ximin Luo
Holger Levsen: > Hi Ximin, > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 02:08:45PM +0200, Ximin Luo wrote: >> Many software packages (e.g. see #833846) like to set optimisation flags >> based >> on autodetecting CPU features of the build machine. > > do you really say/think that *many* packages in *Debian* have

Bug#833850: dpkg-dev: add per-architecture optimisation flags to dpkg-buildflags

2016-11-04 Thread Guillem Jover
Control: reassign -1 gcc-6 [ Leaving enough context for gcc maintainers. ] On Tue, 2016-08-09 at 14:08:45 +0200, Ximin Luo wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.18.10 > Severity: wishlist > Many software packages (e.g. see #833846) like to set optimisation > flags based on autodetecting CPU fe

Bug#833850: dpkg-dev: add per-architecture optimisation flags to dpkg-buildflags

2016-08-09 Thread Ximin Luo
Ximin Luo: > [..] in practise package maintainers will just disable all build-time CPU > detection to avoid generating illegal instructions. [..] A slight logical clarification here - not only do maintainers disable build-time CPU detection, but in most cases they will end up disabling *all* optim

Bug#833850: dpkg-dev: add per-architecture optimisation flags to dpkg-buildflags

2016-08-09 Thread Ximin Luo
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.10 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, Many software packages (e.g. see #833846) like to set optimisation flags based on autodetecting CPU features of the build machine. Of course this is not suitable for binary distributors in general, and for Debian package maint