Hi,
When using the Fink source distribution to install packages, are
cpu-specific optimizations triggered?
Will packages build by Fink for i386 run on any other i386-compatible
mac?
I'm using MacOS 10.6 on a Core2 Duo and I setup Fink to build programs
for i386. Can I safely copy my system to a
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On 8/18/10 11:50 AM, Renaud Detry wrote:
Hi,
When using the Fink source distribution to install packages, are
cpu-specific optimizations triggered?
No.
Will packages build by Fink for i386 run on any other i386-compatible
mac?
Yes.
I'm
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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On 8/18/10 11:50 AM, Renaud Detry wrote:
Hi,
When using the Fink source distribution to install packages, are
cpu-specific optimizations triggered?
No.
There is one exception to this
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On 8/18/10 12:42 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:39 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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On 8/18/10 11:50 AM, Renaud Detry wrote:
Hi,
When using the Fink source distribution to install
On 18 Aug 2010, at 18:42, David R. Morrison wrote:
There is one exception to this that I'm aware of: the gmp package
does cpu-specific optimization at compile time. But the cpu-
specific optimizations tend to be upward-compatible, so if you
compile this package on your least-capable
Thanks for the replies!
Do (Mach-O?) binaries encode which extensions to the x86 set they make
use of?
Can one expect a warning when loading an incompatible binary, or will
it run with an undefined behavior?
(I know this is a bit out-of-topic, but I think it might interest
other readers of this
On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Renaud Detry wrote:
Thanks for the replies!
Do (Mach-O?) binaries encode which extensions to the x86 set they make
use of?
Yes
Can one expect a warning when loading an incompatible binary,
Yes
or will
it run with an undefined behavior?
Here's a thread
Jean-Fran?ois Mertens j...@core.ucl.ac.be said:
On 18 Aug 2010, at 18:42, David R. Morrison wrote:
There is one exception to this that I'm aware of: the gmp package
does cpu-specific optimization at compile time. But the cpu-
specific optimizations tend to be upward-compatible, so if you
