Guest Posted October 14, 2002 Report Share Posted October 14, 2002 when ever i build a src.rpm it always end up in the i586 folder when i have a atherlon xp, is the a command i am ment to pass to it to build it for amd's finest or is it the norm to be build for the i586 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 14, 2002 Report Share Posted October 14, 2002 oow and whats the diffirence with a src.rpm and a noarch.rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 14, 2002 Report Share Posted October 14, 2002 I've never heard of a architecture argument, but it's probably associated with one of the athlon bugs and the kernel?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted October 15, 2002 Report Share Posted October 15, 2002 You can specify the processor but I have seen it discussed mostly in relation to kernel compiles in the newsgroup. People there report both significant improvement and others, no change, so I suspect good results may depend on hardware other than just the CPU. It may make a difference on processor intensive applications as well but that is not widely discussed either, so your mileage may vary. You might consider a Google Groups search on the newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandrake with athlon, duron etc. as the keywords. To answer your other question, a src.rpm is source code packaged as an rpm instead of gzip or tar.gz, etc. and still needs to be compiled. A noarch.rpm is a program where it does not matter what processor is being used including alpha, etc. Counterspy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 15, 2002 Report Share Posted October 15, 2002 OK, someone slap me if I'm wrong, but I've always compiled my kernel and it's been a long time since I built an rpm on a default kernel, but isn't it going to be built as a i586 as long as that's what the kernel is...a default i586. In other words, is it correct to say that they won't go to the athlon folder until you compile the kernel for the athlon??? Because, I just reinstalled because of kernel compile probs (which I've never had) and reiserfs probs, and when I built the nvidia drivers from src they went to i586. So, either I'm correct, or mdk has got a bad bug, which I don't think is the case because we would have heard about this from somewhere...I mean, wouldn't it be BIG NEWS??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted October 15, 2002 Report Share Posted October 15, 2002 That's wrong. I have plain Mdk8.1 kernel running (for i586). But I have a PentiumII (i686). when I compile a .src.rpm, it ends up in the i686 directory. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 15, 2002 Report Share Posted October 15, 2002 That's wrong. I have plain Mdk8.1 kernel running (for i586). But I have a PentiumII (i686). when I compile a .src.rpm, it ends up in the i686 directory. Yves. Right and wrong, most src will end up i686, but Nvidia always ends up i586. I wonder if you rebuilt gcc from source nvidia would be i686 ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted October 15, 2002 Report Share Posted October 15, 2002 My nvidias always went to i686 in 8.1, until yesterday in 9.0. Hmm?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted October 15, 2002 Report Share Posted October 15, 2002 My nvidias always went to i686 in 8.1, until yesterday in 9.0. Hmm?? Mine did the same, but not in 9.00, think its to do with gcc, not sure though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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