On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 13:11:14 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Some time back, minn-tarot1024@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Is it possible to build/install fedora 2 from source rpms so that we > > can optimize the binary, just like Gentoo? > > Not easily. > > You'd be looking at taking each source RPM, modifying the configuration > inside that SRPM, and running rpmbuild on it. > > It's possible, but it's not particularly automated. Not really. You could rpmbuild --rebuild --target ... the src.rpms with a reconfigured %optflags value, e.g. via /usr/lib/rpm/*-linux/ and most packages should accept the different RPM_OPT_FLAGS just fine. -- Fedora Core release 2.90 (FC3 Test 1) - Linux 2.6.7-1.478
