Should I change -Di386 entries in the makefiles?

[prickle]

Hi,

I've already compiled the server and have it running. Everything appears to be running fine at this point, including the bots. However, I couldn't help but notice that when I did my original compile I had to change all of the 'march=i686' entries to 'march=athlon64'. This makes me wonder whether I should change the '-Di386' DFLAG to '-Dathlon64' as well in the sake of thoroughness?

I usually stick with "if it ain't broke don't fix it", but curiosity has me wondering if it'll be 'better'...

Thanks for any input you may have.

[cybernine186]

You know I was wondering the same thing....I would also like to know the answer to this one but its above me.

Also in some of the makefiles they do not have a -D flag, does some of the applications not require it or just not specified just because?

[prickle]

I've figured it out enough for myself to understand at this point with the help of some Google Fu.

The -Di386 needs to stay as that's the basic architecture. The -march=xxxxxxx is the optimization instruction set to compile into the binary during compile. Essentially, Intel and AMD 64 bit processors are x86 processors with their individual 64 bit optimizations...

As for your question with some makefiles with and without the -D flag, i believe the ones without are being called upon by other makefile(s) and inherit the -D flags from those files.