[arch-general] makepkg.conf CFLAGS

Rashif Ray Rahman schiv at archlinux.org
Mon Jun 2 07:03:10 EDT 2014


On 1 June 2014 18:03, Yamakaky <yamakaky at yamaworld.fr> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just discovered the gcc option march=native. It enables all the
> local-supported optimizations, without downsides except the non-portability
> of the binaries. Is there a reason why it isn't enabled by default, as cross
> platform compilation isn't used by most of the users (I think) ?

I think your main concern is why portability would matter first and
why we would stick with that by default. I believe when the decision
was made it was simply based on the fact that being able to share is
worth more for the community than local optimization.


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