Am Mo, den 12.01.2004 schrieb Matt um 08:34: > Hi folks > > Just a couple trivial queries here. I have an AMD Athlon Thunderbird CPU > and my $HOSTTYPE is currently "i386". I thought it would have been > either "i686" or maybe even "athlon"? I realise the machine architecture > is an i386 compatible but I thought the exact architecture would have > been more appropriate. `arch` correctly reports "i686". > Related is the $MACHTYPE. It's set to "i386-redhat-linux-gnu". Again, > should this not contain i686? Also, are there plans to change this to > fedora? i.e. "i686-fedora-linux-gnu". > Lastly, is it safe to change these values myself? Or do certain apps > rely on them being the values originally set? > > TIA > -- > Matt What you see on you Athlon system is the situation and ok. Fedora Core 1 is still i386 based, only glibc may vary like on your's which is i686, and the kernel is CPU dependent compiled. You see last by using "uname -a". What do you expect by having a i686 based architecture compile? You might only gain just a few percentages of speed, if though. As far as I see at the rpm macros, Fedora is using prelinking, which normally brings you most performance gains using different applications. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
