I see 8.1 has a glibc-2.2.5 for i586 package and a glibc-2.2.5 for i686 package. All the other packages are i586 only. Is there an automatic mechanism for getting the one most appropriate to the machine installed? -- 10:37am up 58 days, 1:06, 2 users, load average: 0.03, 0.04, 0.00
I see 8.1 has a glibc-2.2.5 for i586 package and a glibc-2.2.5 for i686 package. All the other packages are i586 only. Is there an automatic mechanism for getting the one most appropriate to the machine installed?
Yes, the packages in 8.1 are built for i586, not i386, so you won't be able to install it on anything older than a Pentium... How did your 486 install of 8.0 go Derek? -- James Ogley, Unix Systems Administrator, Pinnacle Insurance Plc james.ogley@pinnacle.co.uk www.pinnacle.co.uk +44 (0) 20 8731 3619 Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 8.0) Updated GNOME RPMs for SuSE Linux: www.usr-local-bin.org ********************************************************************** CONFIDENTIALITY.This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Pinnacle Insurance plc. If you have received this email in error please immediately notify the Pinnacle Helpdesk on +44 (0) 20 8207 9555. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************
I see 8.1 has a glibc-2.2.5 for i586 package and a glibc-2.2.5 for i686 package. All the other packages are i586 only. Is there an automatic mechanism for getting the one most appropriate to the machine installed?
Yes, the packages in 8.1 are built for i586, not i386, so you won't be able to install it on anything older than a Pentium...
Yes, but I'm assuming that the glibc package - and only that package, it would appear - has been compiled for i686 as well, as an optimisation. Anders' post suggests SuSE are doing some form of detection to see which library (i586 or i686) is best for the machine. Actually, in light of the way SuSE have always supplied i386 packages, I've often wondered if there's any merit in recompiling a number of the core packages I use just for my machine, with the right optimisations for it. I'd have thought recompiling the kernel, glibc, X, KDE, GCC and Perl for my machine would give better performance for my work patterns. I've never gotten around to it though. -- 12:08pm up 58 days, 2:37, 2 users, load average: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00
On Friday 20 September 2002 11.47, Derek Fountain wrote:
I see 8.1 has a glibc-2.2.5 for i586 package and a glibc-2.2.5 for i686 package. All the other packages are i586 only. Is there an automatic mechanism for getting the one most appropriate to the machine installed?
There must be. My athlon got the i686 package installed. I can't really remember where it was, but I once came across a description on the net on how you detected which cpu was in a computer, based on bugs in the CPU, instructions present in one version but not in another, and other esoterica. //Anders
participants (3)
-
Anders Johansson
-
Derek Fountain
-
James Ogley