Package with x86 vector instruction support

Jerry James loganjerry at gmail.com
Thu Apr 21 01:45:25 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Jussi Lehtola
<jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> What package are we talking about?
>
> There is already at least one package in Fedora which does a similar
> thing: ATLAS. It normally automatically tunes itself for the optimal
> build flags, so some special tricks have to be done for packaging.
>
> ATLAS has currently the following versions on Fedora:
>
> i686: plain, 3dnow, sse, sse2 and sse3
> x86_64: plain and sse2
>
> The plain stands for the "atlas" package. I don't know what flags it
> uses.

I"m trying to update the m4ri package, which now does such tricks.
Thanks for the pointer.  I'll look at the atlas spec file and see how
it's done there.
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Jerry James
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