Re: Ready to build for i686, but am a little confused

[Andrew Hurt <apolhurt@starpower.net>]

Bertram Bourdrez wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:43:02AM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote:
>
> > Greetings.
> >
> > Trying to optimize things for i686, and have assumed I should start
> > with gcc(?).
>
> I guess it would be easier to instruct the Debian-supplied gcc to compile
> for i686 by using the -march=i686 flag. If you're compiling Debian sources
> you could alter dkpg-architecture to spit out i686 instead of i386, and if
> you're compiling anything else from source you might want to try editing the
> Makefile's CFLAGS macro to say -march=i686 in addition to what's already in
> there.


Is good.  I have played with some of these, but my 'play' was not 
organized enough to track my mistakes properly.

Will try some more (though I am weary about modifying dpkg-architecture).

Thanks!

ah