Re: Gnome success report, optimized compiling

[Kevin Miller <sar hempseed com>]

I used egcs, seems to work fine...

sar

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Richard Hult wrote:

> 
> >Have you compiled gimp as such also? It really flies too...
> 
> No, I haven't had the time to compile that big one ;) The linux kernel
> 2.1.125 had higher priority... 
> 
> >I compiled w/ optimizations about a week ago, and I had the same results,
> >I didnt compile with so many, just -06 -mpentium, and it made a big
> >difference compared to -02's speed.
> 
> Hmm... did you use gcc or egcs? I read, after compiling with egcs, that
> it's not a good idea to use > -O2 because of bugs in egcs... it seems to
> work fine though...
> 
> /Richard
>