Re: [Cooker] problems with K6 processor ans 2006.1 packages

[Austin Acton]

On 1/2/06, Wurbel Eric <wurbel@univ-tln.fr> wrote:
> I've freshly installed a community 2006.0 distro on an "old" K6-2
> processor and updated it with the cooker.
> I ran into severe execution problems concerning the processor
> instruction set.
> It seems that a lot of packages are compiled specificaly for processors
> of a "higher" class (PII ? PIII ? PIV ?...). These packages provoke
> core dumps on illegal instruction errors on this K6-2, and these
> problems are always solved by a recompilation of the packages, which can
> sometimes be a huge task.

This is a good point.  It is more arduous to recompile on a K6 or a C3
than it is on an i686 machine.

> Are 2006.1 packages deliberately optimized for processor of a higher
> class that the K6 ? Or is it just that the offending packages uses
> too aggressive optimizations during the build process ?
>
> Thanks in advance for your answers.
> sincerely yours
>
> regards
>
> Eric
> PS: example packages that ran into problems :
> - ardour (contrib)
> - caps ladspa plugins (main)

Really running ardour on a K6?  Is that not a rare enough circumstance
to justify some of your own compilation/tweaking time or a more
customizeable distro than mandriva?

Austin