--with-arch=i486 (was Re: Merging the jh branch to trunk)

[Jeremy Huntwork]

Robert Connolly wrote:
> The 'configparms' file can exist before or after ./configure is run, in the 
> build directory. I'm not sure which was looks better in the LFS book.

I just tried this, and I used it before configure, though as you say, it 
shouldn't make much of a difference since it's processed by the 
Makefile, not configure. I used:

echo "CFLAGS += -march=i686" > configparms

The point being that if it happened that -march=i686 is used incorrectly 
outside of CFLAGS we know glibc will bomb, not that I thought it very 
likely that it would.

Everything went smoothly, so unless anyone has any objections, this is 
the method I'll be dropping in, except using i486, of course. I won't 
commit for the next hour or so, however, so that will give at least some 
time for other comments or objections.

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JH