20 Sep
2002
20 Sep
'02
10:13
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