Re: [gentoo-dev] make.conf optimization flags for k6, athlon

[Dan Armak <ermak@netvision.net.il>]

On Saturday 14 July 2001 00:37, you wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 11:59:53PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote:
> > > -march=k6 will cause the i586 build to *not* run on a Pentium Classic
> > > or MMX, which is why we don't use it.  However, just the -mcpu=k6
> > > should work on anything.
> >
> > I understand that, it reinforces what I said. People who compile from
> > build snapshots should set more 'exact' optimization settings, and
> > make.conf's comments should tell them to do so.
>
> Ah, I misunderstood.  I agree.  Since you now have CVS access, feel free to
> add commented-out K6 optimizations to
> /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/files/1.5/cnf/make.conf :)
>
 I added it. I also added an i386 option. Does anyone know why the options 
started from 486 initially? Is there a problem in using 386 (with a math 
coprocessor)?

Dan Armak