Re: Note Pentium Optimized only really helps P5 CPUs ...

[Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk>]

Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > Half of what you asked for is already there: As of 0.3.6,
> > you can "apt-get -b source apache" to rebuild a package.
> 
> This is what i remembered and now the only missing piece are
> "machine-local" compiler settings to easily recompile
> packages with every compiler somebody over might think of.

That's easy.

Make /usr/local/bin/gcc a script which calls

gcc -march=giraffe -mcpu=pig

And make sure it's higher in your path, then most packages will
automatically use it.

Jules