[olug] Compiling for your PC

[Sam Tetherow]

wouldn't 'export CFLAGS="-march i686 -O6 -mcpu i686"' handle the 
optimization?

Eric Penne wrote:
>>From what I can tell of the configure scripts and the Makefile in the
> source directory it pulls the architecture by doing a uname -m or
> /bin/arch.  In my case it says i686 but when I actually compile the
> program it compiles for i386 which is states right at the beginning of the
>  dh-buildsomethingorother command.   The dh-whatever command is called by
> apt-get source --build Package.
> 
> I got it to successfully compile Kino last night and the .deb successfully
> installed.  I would still like to know how to pass the i486 or i586
> argument to the configure script through the apt-get command.
> 
> I assume this can be done for things like apache and that many people do
> it but I for the life of me can't find anything on google that gives a
> hint.
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
>>On Tue, 06 May 2003 22:24:32 -0500
>>Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
>>
>>| > Is it possible to use APT to download the source, compile, then | >
>>install all in one step?  I know people like Gentoo but I don't want | >
>>to jump head first into fast flowing currents. :)  I just want to dip |
>>
>>>my toes in.
>>
>>|
>>|Unfortunately not right off hand.  APT is not for people who like to
>>|compile stuff :)
>>
>>Sometimes true, I do like the fact that I can apt-get pkgname and have
>>that installed and running in a minute or so tops.  Waiting for it to
>>compile and all (gentoo emerge), might make me a little impatient... for
>>example I apt-get'd KDE 3.1.1 with everything in about 8 minutes.
>>
>>that other info you found...
>>apt-get build-dep openoffice.org
>>apt-get source --build openoffice.org
>>
>>was what I was thinking, I'd like to try that someday, never really
>>have.  But yeah, I'm not sure how you would pass compiler options (i486)
>>and optimizations to the apt process though.  Wouldn't that normally be
>>down in a ./configure script?
>>
>>peace
>>
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