[SM-Discuss] Compiling xfree86 with gcc2
Duane Macolm
d.malcolm at auckland.ac.nz
Mon Nov 25 13:43:46 EST 2002
Does the host.def file get regenerated if if I run "cast -c xfree86"
because this is what I do and I don't get any of my previously saved
settings showing up.
Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:54:45PM +1300, Duane Malcolm wrote:
>
>
>>I THINK the problem has to do with the CONFIGURE script for xfree86,
>>specifically the "generate_host_def" function. Where it generates the
>>host.def file to include the optimization flags using $CFLAGS. But I
>>have a feeling it doesn't take the USEGCC2 into account when it
>>generates the file and uses the gcc3 optimization flags. So host.def has
>>set the gcc3 flags even though it is using gcc2 and cast is setting the
>>gcc2 optimization flags, I think this explains the repeated optimization
>>flags.
>>
>>
>
>Just a note, the host.def file is only regenerated if you cast -r xfree,
>so you have to do this if you changed optimization settings.
>
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>Arwed
>aka alley_cat
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