Hello, everyone! It's my first mail to this list. I hope the community here is as friendly as the one at the general "gentoo-user" list ;-) Please, forgive me if open some threads about already discussed issues until I catch up with rhythm of the list.
So let me start a with 2 newbie questions caused by my first impressions from the x86_64 world: 1) I use CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -msse3 -m3dnow -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fpic". Portage complains with *red letters* about the fpic flag. Every time I emerge something it says that "fpic breaks things", but I haven't met a single breakage so far. Is that a bug? Actually there was an ebuild which could not be compiled if mysql was compiled w/o "fpic". I'm not 100% sure but AFAIR it was dev-perl/DBD-mysql. 2) I see too many flags that are disabled by the profile - the kind with the parenthesis around them, like "(-3dnow)". Why? As I mentioned above I enable some of these through my CFLAGS - e.g. (-mmx), (-mmxext), (-sse) and (-sse2) and everything works perfect. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
