Always use some specific servers to build a package

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le mardi 22 juin 2010 à 10:01 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Sylvestre Ledru, le Tue 22 Jun 2010 09:20:18 +0200, a écrit :
> > Le dimanche 20 juin 2010 à 00:55 +0200, Kurt Roeckx a écrit :
> > > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:22:41PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > > Le samedi 12 juin 2010 à 00:25 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > > > Sylvestre Ledru, le Sat 12 Jun 2010 00:01:25 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > > > Does anyone see a better way of handling this specific problem ?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Can't atlas just build the binaries and not try to run then?
> > > > No because Atlas is building many time the same sources to see which
> > > > optimisation performs best...
> > > 
> > > Does that mean it's optimizing for the hosts that build it?  
> > It is indeed the way atlas is working... 
> > The best way to achieve maximum performances is to build locally atlas.
> > No doubt about that.
> 
> Then can't there be a flag to just select a not-so-optimised-but-generic
> version?
This task is done by the base package of atlas.

> Note btw that the current packaging doesn't permit to easily rebuild it
> locally, since as soon as you don't have an sse3 processor, the debian
> scripts complain that there is no sse3-optimised version.
Indeed, I should disable this check when the custom build is done.

Sylvestre