Re: problem with RH7.3 Pg7.3.4 binaries

Mark Cave-Ayland said:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a RedHat 7.3 machine that can build the 7.3.4 RPMs if required -
> it only contains RPMs from the vanilla CD or from updates.redhat.com.
> I've just done a test build and everything seems OK except that the C
> compiler is passed the -mcpu=i686 flag - I'm guessing I need to somehow
> change this to i386 so it will binaries will run on actual i386
> machines? Can someone point me in the right direction?
>

The -mcpu flag doesn't do what you seems to think it does.
It still generates i386 compatible code, but favours i686 processor
timings etc.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.


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