[WBEL-devel] Re: openssl security update needed

[William Hooper]

Lamar Owen said:
> More specifically, most are built with '-march=i386 -mcpu=i686' which both
> optimizes for i686 instruction ordering but can still be run on earlier
> CPU's.  The -march=i386 makes it an '.i386.rpm' but that's OK, since the
> instruction ordering is still optimized for i686.  It is a tad confusing,
> but
> it works, and the performance benefits of '-march=i686 -mcpu=i686' are
> miniscule for OpenSSL.

Actually openssl is one of the exceptions where it makes sense to compile
for different arches.  The kernel, openssl, and glibc are build for
specific arches by Red Hat and Whitebox.



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William Hooper