Re: FVWM: Compiling FVWM with optimizations

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 11:42:13 +0100

On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:17:31AM +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> On 27 Mar 2002 01:52:17 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >
> > I'm currently working on getting CRUX linux ( http://crux.nu ) running
> > on my second machine. It's a lightweight, but up-to-date, highly
> > optimized linux. Everything is supposed to be optimized as "march=i686".
> > I've done the standard "./configure && make && make install" routine,
> > but tweaking compiler options is new to me. My first guess is something
> > like...
> >
> > set CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686"
> > export CFLAGS
> >
> > Is this correct, and if not, what should I be doing ?
>
> If you do this before ./configure, it will use these optimizations in all
> tests (determining whether you have xpm, gnome-libs, stroke and all other
> supports). This may give bad test results in some CFLAGS cases, but it is
> usually ok. Additionally ./configure produces Makefiles with the given
> CFLAGS instead of the default "-g -O2 -Wall" or "-g -O2".
>
> "make" itself does not use environment $CFLAGS, it uses what is configured
> at ./configure time. But you may pass CFLAGS to "make" like this:
>
> % make clean
> % make all CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686"

I don't recommend using -O3. THe last time I did that I got
random crashes (I think, can't remember exactly).

Bye

Dominik ^_^ ^_^

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