Re: Can I compile with MMX and SSE/SSE2 instruction sets ?

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell at wfu dot edu>]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Timothy Madden wrote:

> On 06/27/2012 01:09 AM, Allin Cottrell wrote: [...]
> > I'm puzzled by the reported failure of "install_root" to do what it's
> > supposed to. I've been using that formulation for years, to install new
> > builds of glibc into /tmp/glibc-N.M from where I make a tarball, which I
> > subsequently untar into the system location using a bootable CD
> > (SystemRescueCd). This worked fine for me with glibc 2.15. I use the
> > invocation, for example,
> >
> > make install_root=/tmp/glibc-2.15 install
> >
> > and nothing spills into system locations. I don't mind using DESTDIR
> > instead; I just don't understand the complaint.
>
> It seems to work for the Slackware build script for glibc package, too.
>
> I tried to type
> 	env LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C install_root=$HOME/usr make install
>
> and after that my system would not boot anymore.

Not sure about this, but maybe the order on the command line 
may matter. All the uses of "install_root" that I've seen 
place it after "make":

make install_root=whatever install

Allin Cottrell