On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Jim Flanagan
Mine is the 32bit proc. Checkinstall seems to default to i386, but has options for athlon, i586 and i686 as well. I'm not sure, but I think the need for the athlon option was negated by either that being for older athlon processors, or the newer linux kernels. So I guess using i686 won't be a problem?
If you haven't specified a processor[0] when compiling the package, by default it will be built for the i586. So, unless you force it to be built for your processor[1], you're fine specifying the architecture as an i586. [0] by passing something like the following to GCC: -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -mmmx -mfpmath=mmx [1] The optimum compiler options for an AthlonXP are something like: -march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx -m3dnow Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62