Recompilation of SRPMS.

Kevin Francis kevin at loose-screws.com
Sun Nov 16 05:26:20 UTC 2003


I'd recompile things like Video/Audio applications that REQUIRE
performance. Perhaps X as well. Other than that ... nope.

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 09:18, jackzheng2002 at sohu.com wrote:
> -----  原文  -----
> From: Ted Kaczmarek 
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com 
> Subject: Re: Recompilation of SRPMS.
> Sent: Sun Nov 16 09:02:49 CST 2003
> 
> hehe, that's right
> 
> > Very few things benefit from this, but some do.
> > Generally for most, the time you spend building the rpms will far exceed
> > the cpu time you will save :-)
> > 
> > Ted
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:55, Konrad Kosmowski wrote:
> > > Does it make sense to recompile some packages for diffrent architecture? 
> > > I'am running a Duron processor and I see Fedoras packages are compiled 
> > > for i386 so I've grabbed some SRPMS and started recompiling it with 
> > > --target=athlon. I've begun with XFree86 compiled it for athlon and 
> > > installed it. I think every X app is now a little zippier but that may 
> > > be placebo effect ;-). So does it make sense to recompile everything 
> > > else? I don't mean small apps that I use rarely, rather big ones that i 
> > > use often (fe. Mozilla, OpenOffice) - will the recompilation for athlon 
> > > increase speed?
> > 
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