Re: benefits of apt-build for powerpc?

2005-05-22 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 22:49 +, Lee Braiden wrote: > I gather G3 optimisations can be quite effective, even without altivec. > Problem I have is getting debian (and especially apt-build) to use my > optimisation flags. They seem to wilfully ignore CFLAGS etc. :( So if you > get that workin

Re: benefits of apt-build for powerpc?

2005-03-14 Thread Lee Braiden
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:13, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > PBG4 -- I mean with x86 the i386 packages are a long way behind in terms > of instruction set. Is this the same for PowerPC? I gather G3 optimisations can be quite effective, even without altivec. Problem I have is getting debian (and

benefits of apt-build for powerpc?

2005-03-14 Thread Matthew T. Atkinson
'ello, Recently my housemates have been compiling debian using a modified apt-build that we made support distcc. It is producing big speed-ups (and space savings, which surprised me) on our x86 (athlon) boxen. I was wondering if I would see much benefit from doing the same for my PBG4 -- I mean