Bug#559516: FTBFS on various archs

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Mira,

|--==> On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:11:54 +0100 (CET), Jaromír Mikeš <mira.mikes at seznam.cz> said:

  JM> These cflags improving performance on intel processors These are
  JM> instructions sets like sse sse2 sse3 ... of intel i386 and x86-64
  JM> processors

Yes, that's correct.

  JM> It looks like it should be ok allow these at least for amd64 and  IA-64 arch.
  JM> Not sure about i386, hurd-i386

  JM> As regards performance benefits I can ask Fons (upstream).

Sounds a good idea!

  JM> How to allow these switches for specific architecture?

You'll need to add some logic to debian/rules, checking the architecture
the package is being built on and enabling the flags accordingly.

Ciao!

Free