Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:22:58 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Paul Seniura <pdseniura@techie.com> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Subject: Re: I believe lang/icc* are not open-source nor 'free', right? Message-ID: <200403191323.02622.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20040319045833.ED0D811E771@scifi.homeip.net> References: <200403122136.i2CLaCm9096276@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040319020843.GA14259@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040319045833.ED0D811E771@scifi.homeip.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--Boundary-02=_mYuWANUW5aCzChN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 19 March 2004 05:58, Paul Seniura wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 07:51:59PM -0600, Paul Seniura wrote: > OTOH, allowing mplayer to use its original author's -O3 > setting made a *huge* difference For The Better on the Puny > Pentium2 -- it's actually usable now. > Same goes for KDE and its millions of modules with -O2. With regard to to KDE I am very, VERY, V E R Y certain you're fooling yours= elf=20 there. > But what about the public pkgs. > > Because of these -O tests on 'dumber' Ps, I have been on > record on this list for wanting FBSD maintainers to stop > editting the CFLAGS from the original author's settings. > They likely have tested it with gcc on i386, we use gcc > on i386, so the original settings ought to stay put. Most authors don't test things like different optimizations at all, let alo= ne=20 gcc 2.x vs gcc 3.x, and different platforms ... don't even start. Experienc= e=20 clearly shows that CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS enforcement is necessary to reliably get= =20 packages built on a multiplatform project like FreeBSD. > IMO it'd be better time spent in getting gcc up to par. ;) I've not been too-big-a-fan of the whole icc effort myself in the past (and= I=20 still don't have the port installed, nor am I likely to be going to - the=20 hoops you have to jump through to even get it are ridiculous IMHO), but for= =20 all I can tell your worries really are unreasonable - all of them. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --Boundary-02=_mYuWANUW5aCzChN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAWuYmXhc68WspdLARAmOKAKCSD5DHKP0Bgw7A6ZTVbx8+pVlAkgCdF7qH /eLdfT5XC5l3oVVNUFASIEI= =4mD4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_mYuWANUW5aCzChN--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200403191323.02622.michaelnottebrock>