Secondary architectures and marketing

[Oliver Falk]

Matt Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Oliver Falk <oliver at linux-kernel.at> wrote:
>>> Jay Estabrook mentioned to me that he just got xulrunner to compile
>>> again, but only with -O0. If this was ever an issue with Gentoo, it's
>>> long since fixed.
>> -O0 is already gone with the latest build (it's -O2 now). We now only have
>> --no-relax, passed to the linker.
> 
> Which obviously isn't the point.
> 
> It took time and effort to do something that was already done
> elsewhere. By the way, this is also the exact solution used for some
> time on Gentoo.

Well, it would be better to hunt down the linker problem and the gcc 
optimization problem(s) (eg. -Os on alpha), but that's not trivial...

Elsewhere done right, but not with the same tools and not in the same 
environment...

>>> You, Oliver, and Jay are two of the best developers we have, and it
>>> seems to me to be such a waste of your time and effort to worry about
>>> hunting down a build error and generating RPMs.
>> Thx a lot for the flowers :-)
>>
>> Well, hunting down build errors is what we *have to do*. If we wouldn't do
>> that, we wouldn't have recent gcc, glibc, xulrunner, firefox, kernel, ...
>> And that we produce RPMs, well, we're packaging for Fedora. :-)
>>
> 
> Again. I think you missed the point here.

Well, what's the point? :-)

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