Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:53:13AM -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:
> 
> Why do gentoo users make such a huge deal out of this?
> 
Most simply put, because they can. It is a geek thing, actually I like the 
concept as an excercise... But beyond that, the amount of time for arch
specific builds is extensive and performance is actually worse
in some cases...  

> Would you be interested in adding the athlon arch if everything builds 
> correctly? I can check all those packages. Basically, I am interested to 
> know whether the packages in question really do *require* i386 and i386 
> only to work correctly, or whether simply nobody has checked (or cares) 
> whether this will work when compiled for athlon...
> 
Personally I would have no interested in adding the arch, in all honesty, I
would be very surprised if it made any difference at all in ability to
build.  It would take a rather specific bug in the code to trigger an
athlon only error for build. All of the listed packages should build just
fine.  I am sure if a package maintainer were interested, they would add
it.  There is a big difference between adding the x86 equivs and some other
arch.  The former generally works... the later can break at times.

Justin