Re: 486 Optimizations...

* Trond Eivind Glomsr?d <teg(at)redhat(dot)com> [001114 15:43]:
> Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org> writes:
>
> > Anyone care if I build a patch to kill the -m486 type options in the
> > following files:
> >
> > $ grep -i -- 486 *
> > bsdi: i?86) CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -m486";;
> > freebsd:CFLAGS='-O2 -m486 -pipe'
> > univel:CFLAGS='-v -O -K i486,host,inline,loop_unroll -Dsvr4'
>
> Why would you want to? Not all gccs support -mpentium/mpentiumpro etc.
I would remove it entirely.

Why should a package FORCE 486 or any other processor optimizations?

Larry
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