Always use some specific servers to build a package

[Samuel Thibault]

Sylvestre Ledru, le Tue 22 Jun 2010 09:20:18 +0200, a écrit :
> Le dimanche 20 juin 2010 à 00:55 +0200, Kurt Roeckx a écrit :
> > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:22:41PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > > Le samedi 12 juin 2010 à 00:25 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > > Sylvestre Ledru, le Sat 12 Jun 2010 00:01:25 +0200, a écrit :
> > > > > Does anyone see a better way of handling this specific problem ?
> > > > 
> > > > Can't atlas just build the binaries and not try to run then?
> > > No because Atlas is building many time the same sources to see which
> > > optimisation performs best...
> > 
> > Does that mean it's optimizing for the hosts that build it?  
> It is indeed the way atlas is working... 
> The best way to achieve maximum performances is to build locally atlas.
> No doubt about that.

Then can't there be a flag to just select a not-so-optimised-but-generic
version?

Note btw that the current packaging doesn't permit to easily rebuild it
locally, since as soon as you don't have an sse3 processor, the debian
scripts complain that there is no sse3-optimised version.

Samuel