On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, nyook wrote: > Colin Charles wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 00:25, Phil Hannent wrote: > > > >>Does anyone know of a repository that has i686 binaries compiled for fedora? > > > > > > They are all i686 optimised. > > I see. Does that mean that although the files are labeled i386 they are > compiled for i386 "under the hood"? IIRC, they are minimall i686 optimised - that is to say, they will run on a 386 still, but will run more optimally on a 686. However, they won't use any extension instructions. I could be wrong. -- Sam Barnett-Cormack Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University
