Re: tune gcc

2003-03-20 Thread Klaus Imgrund
Of course, if you find some convincing evidence that using processor specific optimisations does get a large gain, post them here! It'll at least quell the stupid 'Debian needs a separate archive for every CPU model in existence!!!1' one or the other. Well, we can dream :) Well there is some stuf

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:42:20PM +, Klaus Imgrund wrote: > Cflags are some kind of black magic thing as it appears to me. Everyone seems to have got caught up on the CFLAGS thing here. All we're trying to do is set some command line switches for gcc, and CFLAGS is a common way of doing it.

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
Thanks people, I'm glad someone (or sometwo, as the case may be:) knew what I was babbling about. :-) -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://ertius.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Raju Kurunkad
Hi, Have you tried adding your options as part of /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux//specs? More information on the specs file format can be obtained from: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.2.2/gcc/Spec-Files.html#Spec%20Files Raju * Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-17 20:55]: > Hello All

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:35:52 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If setting CFLAGS is the answer, do you need to set all of them, or only> the one you want to change? Hm, I don't think I quite got what you meant there...You just set whatever flags you'd set on the

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:35:52 +1100 > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> If setting CFLAGS is the answer, do you need to set all of them, or > >only> the one you want to change? > > > Hm, I don't think I quite got what you meant there...You j

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Thank you very for your replies. I guess it we may use the `apt-build' facilities to rebuild our favorite scientific libraries: unfortunately the `apt-build' package conflicts with `pentium-builder'. Nevertheless, a quick look leads to think that they can be merged as they both use a wrapper. Is i

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread ronin2
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:35:52 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If setting CFLAGS is the answer, do you need to set all of them, or >only> the one you want to change? > Hm, I don't think I quite got what you meant there...You just set > whatever flags you'd set on the command line, any

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 06:04:21PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > David Z Maze wrote: > >Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > >>I have a very naive question: > >>Can Debian tune the GNU C Compiler ? > >> > >>[e.g., put `-cpu=pentium' automaticly on Pentium box] > > > > > >There'

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Klaus Imgrund
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 10:08:42 -0500 David Z Maze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a very naive question: > > Can Debian tune the GNU C Compiler ? > > > > [e.g., put `-cpu=pentium' automaticly on Pentium box] > > There's a pentium-builder package

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Jerome BENOIT
David Z Maze wrote: Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a very naive question: Can Debian tune the GNU C Compiler ? [e.g., put `-cpu=pentium' automaticly on Pentium box] There's a pentium-builder package that tries to do this, or you can try to set CFLAGS for the program in quest

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:47:48AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:10:06 +1100 > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sure. You can either set the 'CFLAGS' environment variable (which all > > sane build systems will respect), or you can install the > > 'pentium-build

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread David Z Maze
Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a very naive question: > Can Debian tune the GNU C Compiler ? > > [e.g., put `-cpu=pentium' automaticly on Pentium box] There's a pentium-builder package that tries to do this, or you can try to set CFLAGS for the program in question. With a lim

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread ronin2
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:10:06 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure. You can either set the 'CFLAGS' environment variable (which all > sane build systems will respect), or you can install the > 'pentium-builder' package and use that. Is that really necessary? Doesn't gcc by default bui

Re: tune gcc

2003-03-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:52:08PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a very naive question: > Can Debian tune the GNU C Compiler ? > > [e.g., put `-cpu=pentium' automaticly on Pentium box] Sure. You can either set the 'CFLAGS' environment variable (which all sane build systems

tune gcc

2003-03-16 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello All, I have a very naive question: Can Debian tune the GNU C Compiler ? [e.g., put `-cpu=pentium' automaticly on Pentium box] Thanks, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]