MMX/SSE{2}/3DNOW checks in kdefx/configure.in.in are wrong
ismail (cartman) donmez
ismail.donmez at boun.edu.tr
Tue Jan 6 23:51:42 GMT 2004
Quoting Zack Rusin <zack at kde.org>:
> Nope, you misunderstood the tests. We use those checks to see whether
> the whole thing will compile, since we detect the exact cpu features at
> runtime. So in configure we make sure that kcpuinfo will compile and we
> implemented all the checks in kcpuinfo. Implementing static checking of
> processes features is simply not the best idea in an environment where
> the compilation often takes places on a different machines from the one
> where the binaries are run on.
>
Thanks for the explanation. I just got too excited when configure said I got
SSE2 & 3DNOW! ;)
Regards,
/ismail
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