Then it's an accident waiting to happen. Distributions will use
the host.def shipped with XFree86 and you'll only get a bug report.
I'm just trying to save you some work. It's a 1 byte change, sheesh.

-Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Hourihane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 9:56 AM
To: Champigny, Michael
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] cut-and-paste bug in host.def


On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 09:42:38AM -0400, Champigny, Michael wrote:
> While we are on this topic, the flags for Alpha are too restrictive.
> It should be the more conservative "-mcpu=ev5". By setting it to ev6,
> older Alpha's will not be able to run the compiled code. ev5 is chosen
> since it will allow the compiler to schedule instructions better on
> EV5 and greater processors, while remaining backwards compatible with
> older EV4 and EV45 processors. BTW, the Mesa build procedure handles this
> correctly.
> 
Like Gareth said already - it's a set of default's YOU SHOULD set yourself !

Alan.

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