Re: Gnome success report, optimized compiling

[Soren Harward <soren cinternet net>]

If you do this, make sure you remove config.cache files as ./configure
will still try to look for gcc.  gcc doesn't like the '-O6 -mpentiumpro
-march=pentiumpro' flags I sent it.

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On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Richard Hult wrote:

)
)>Could you tell us exactly how to optimize the beast ?? I am not very much
)>acquainted with autogen stuff so I don't really know where to put the
)flags ...
)
)The beauty of using autogen & co is that you can simply do this:
)
)export CFLAGS='-O6 -mpentium'
)export CC='egcs'
)./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome
)make && make install
)
)That's all I did except that I used some more flags that I can't recall
)right now, but I have them on my computer at home. There was some problems
)with gnome-libs though, I'll post a description of what I did tomorrow when
)I get access to my own computer.
)
)The environment flags override the defaults so if you want debugging, put a
)'-g' in the CFLAGS. Debugging is probably a good idea, since gnome is still
)beta or alpha or whatnot :)
)
)So, try compiling with optimizations turned on, just to feel the kick when
)everything runs soo smooth and much faster than windows! MWAHAHAHA see Bill
)in the rearview mirror! ;)
)
)Richard
)
)
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