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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 10:23:45PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> Duane Macolm said:
> > So there should be no problem if I set my architecture to i686 for all
> > compilations. I guess what I am asking is is there any advantage setting
> >  the achitecture to pentiumIV over i686 and if so is it worth the
> > hassel?
> >
> > I may try this out with a fresh install on another partition.
> >
> > Cheers for that tip.
> >
> > Duane
> 
> There is an  advantage: pentium4 will add -msse -msse2 -mmmx to your
> compilation settings, whereas i686 will only add -mmmx (IIRC).  Also, I
> believe that only xfree86 fails to compile with pentium4 (that's all I've
> noticed so far), so probably just change to i686 for the xfree86
> compilation, then set it back afterwards.
> 
> Perhaps this should be fixed in the xfree86 spell?  if -march=pentium4,
> then sedit it to pentium3?  I believe pentium3 compiles fine with xfree86,
> so you could even put that instead of i686.
> 
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle

This sounds like an easy fix, I'll do it over the weekend

Cheers

Joel
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