[bugweek] A script to detect -mtune=i386 libraries

Colin Walters walters at redhat.com
Sun Sep 26 15:28:39 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 17:19 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> Am i the only guy here who's running Fedora on pentium 3's? What about
> AMD folks? Or those who simply wants to use their old pentium 1's to run
> some sort of httpd, ftpd or simply a sshd for irissi etc?
> 
> Yes, optimization is great, but don't leave people unable to use your
> distro. 

This has been discussed innumerable times here and on other mailing
lists.  Executive summary: -mtune=i686 doesn't make you unable to run
these binaries on i586 or below, it just makes it "tuned" for i686,
hence the name.

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