qmake/Qt 4.8 on RHEL6 - mtune=atom

[Rex Dieter]

On 06/27/2013 02:10 PM, Syam wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday, June 27, 2013, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at
> <mailto:kevin.kofler at chello.at>> wrote:
>  > Syam Krishnan wrote:
>  >> What exactly does this mean? As far as I know, the VM shouldn't have
>  >> anything to do with Atom processor.
>  >
>  > We build i686 packages with -mtune=atom based on the principle that
> all the
>  > non-Atom CPUs these days should be 64-bit and thus use the x86_64
> version.
>
> I'm not sure if that's such a good assumption. For example, We stick to
> 32bit at work since some of the special purpose hardware we use don't
> have drivers for 64bit.
>
> So, to use KDE 4.10 & qt 4.8.x on el6 32bit, do I need to build all rpms
> myself to avoid this atom business? The problem is it affects every qt
> based compilation on the machine!

The entire distribution is built using these same flags.  Sounds like 
you'd rather be using gentoo?

-- rex