Mozilla shouldn't force -O2 optimisation on user

Maxim Sobolev sobomax at portaone.com
Mon Apr 14 13:47:52 PDT 2003


Thanks!

-Maxim

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 03:40:03PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 15:21, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 03:12:37PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 15:09, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I think that every concept of "WITHOUT_OPTIMIZE" added in
> > > > rev.1.136 of ports/www/mozilla/Makefile is wrong. No port
> > > > should force optimisation level on user - we have CFLAGS
> > > > for this and each user should be able to select any
> > > > performance/stability ratio he wants.
> > > > 
> > > > IMO relevant part of 1.136 should be backed out, or possibly
> > > > turned into WITH_OPTIMIZED instead.
> > > 
> > > It took me a long time to turn this on.  Many people asked for it, and
> > > extensive tests showed it helped without any adverse affects.  I finally
> > > borrowed the concept from www/phoenix.
> > 
> > Tell them about CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf, or about make CFLAGS="-O100"
> > I bet they would be surprised. ;-)
> 
> Okay, I can dig it.  I'll default it to off, but keep the option in the
> Makefile.
> 
> Joe
> 
> > 
> > -Maxim
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm always open to change.  What say you all?  Should this be reverted? 
> > > Turned into WITH_MOZILLA_OPTIMIZE?
> > > 
> > > Joe
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > 
> > > > -Maxim
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> > > Joe Marcus Clarke
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> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> -- 
> Joe Marcus Clarke
> FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
> 
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