Athlon Incompatible Packages

Ivan Gyurdiev ivg2 at cornell.edu
Tue Feb 24 05:09:01 UTC 2004


> This has been repeated many times in the past.  The vast majority of
> software have zero or negligible performance benefit from compiling to
> athlon.  The compiler flags used to build all packages are already set for
> i686 optimization.  Generally it is a very inefficient use of time to
> rebuild packages for your specific arch as it takes far more time to do so
> than any speed benefit you will gain.  This being said however, nothing
> stops you from taking the SRPMS and doing what you wish to them.  You have
> the freedom of choice with Open Source.
> 
> I would suggest against reporting this kind of "problem" to Bugzilla as
> there are already thousands real issues there that are actual problems.

I think you're avoiding my question, which is whether this is a bug or 
not. It seems to me though, that this is a bug... and all bugs have to 
be fixed, correct? As far as the real issues go, I'll get to those 
too... - I have 67 additional packages that will not build on fedora.













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