Athlon Incompatible Packages

[Tom Diehl]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote:

> 
> > This has been repeated many times in the past.  The vast majority of
> > software have zero or negligible performance benefit from compiling to
> > athlon.  The compiler flags used to build all packages are already set for
> > i686 optimization.  Generally it is a very inefficient use of time to
> > rebuild packages for your specific arch as it takes far more time to do so
> > than any speed benefit you will gain.  This being said however, nothing
> > stops you from taking the SRPMS and doing what you wish to them.  You have
> > the freedom of choice with Open Source.
> > 
> > I would suggest against reporting this kind of "problem" to Bugzilla as
> > there are already thousands real issues there that are actual problems.
> 
> I think you're avoiding my question, which is whether this is a bug or 
> not. It seems to me though, that this is a bug... and all bugs have to 
> be fixed, correct? As far as the real issues go, I'll get to those 
> too... - I have 67 additional packages that will not build on fedora.

Why would you think it was a bug? AFAIK, it is done on purpose. As you quoted
above there are no signifigant performance gains to be realized by doing that
and it would be a lot of work to do that and maintain it. IOW the cure is worse
than the disease.

Tom