Re: gmp srpms (was Re: MICO RPMs?)

[Jason Gilbert <jason scott net>]

Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> But to answer your question, I've downloaded the new SRPM and checked it out.
> It's almost architecture neutral.  You'll have to edit one little line in
> the SPEC file ::
>     ./configure --target=i586-linux --prefix=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr
> 
> I think the correct semantics would be:
>     ./configure --target=`uname -m`-`uname -s` --prefix=${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr
> 
> (You want to leave --target in there because gmp does optimization based on
> The arch/OS combination.... And for some reason it was just going for generic
> without the --target switch.)

It would seem that the latter would be preferred for people who are
going to recompile the srpm, but for the binary the target should
probably be i386-linux since some of the optimizations might cause
problems w/ differ x86 versions.

jason

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