Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 12:28:29PM +0100, Claude Buisson wrote:

> given that the optimization MUST be activated by a CPUTYPE=XXX in
> the user's /etc/make.conf, what is the use of NO_CPU_FLAGS ? 
> just needing 2 lines instead of 0 in /etc/make.conf ?

Because you may want OpenSSL ASM optimizations, but not want to
compile the entire world with -march.

Or, perhaps you want to temporarily override the adding of -march to
CFLAGS while you compile something.

Kris

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