[ardour-dev] ardour packager feedback requested

[Paul Davis]

>>I understand why there are various optimization flags in Ardour when=20
>>building from source code, particularly -march flags. It would be nice=20
>>to ensure these don't get used when building packages for older=20
>>architectures.
>
>even under autoconf, these are only used when specific architectures
>are discovered. the same is true under sconf. we look for the
>processor type, and for x86 processors, for the flags list for the
>processor (mmx, sse etc).

and i just added support for explicitly disabling use of these flags
via an optional flag for scons, so that you can easily build on a 686
with sse+mmx, but avoid using sse+mmx instructions.

one question i have: does using -march=i586/i686 also cause problems?

--p