Hi Magnus,
Thanks for that. I always believed that the mcpu flag could enable a C
compiler to generate code that could use the extra instructions on the
newer CPUs - perhaps one day I'll get around to reading the
documentation ;)
Anyway, I've posted the compiled RH 7.3 postgresql-7.3.4 RPMs at
http://www.webbased.co.uk/mca/pgsql/. Andrew, if you are satisfied that
these work correctly on your RH7.3 install, there is no problem with
Lamar placing copies of them on the postgresql website for people to
download.
Cheers,
Mark.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Naeslund(w) [mailto:mag@fbab.net]
> Sent: 05 August 2003 10:59
> To: Mark Cave-Ayland
> Cc: 'Joe Conway'; 'Andrew Dunstan'; 'Lamar Owen'; 'Postgresql Hackers'
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] problem with RH7.3 Pg7.3.4 binaries
>
>
>
> Mark Cave-Ayland said:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a RedHat 7.3 machine that can build the 7.3.4 RPMs
> if required
> > - it only contains RPMs from the vanilla CD or from
> > updates.redhat.com. I've just done a test build and
> everything seems
> > OK except that the C compiler is passed the -mcpu=i686 flag - I'm
> > guessing I need to somehow change this to i386 so it will binaries
> > will run on actual i386 machines? Can someone point me in the right
> > direction?
> >
>
> The -mcpu flag doesn't do what you seems to think it does.
> It still generates i386 compatible code, but favours i686
> processor timings etc.
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mark.
>
>
> Magnus
>
