[Flac-dev] Re: detecting host machine in configure.in?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 11:36:04AM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> Josh Coalson <xflac at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Basically what I want is configure.in determination of
> > basic machine type (intel/compatible, alpha, ppc), then within
> > that (say intel) the code will detect variants like MMX, SSE,
> > and use the right routines.
> 
> Please include a way to disable processor-specific optimizations.
> Some people need to be able to build (for example) generic i386
> packages, no matter whether the build machine happens to support
> SSE etc.

If the autoconf macros are used, the target can be overridden on the configure
command line (e.g. configure --target=i386-openbsd).

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 - mdz