Options for x86_64 "versions" for system types

[Albin Ahlbäck]

On 3/8/24 07:31, Niels Möller wrote:
> Albin Ahlbäck <albin.ahlback at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> I cannot see that GMP today allows specifying `--host=x86_64-v3-...'
>> or something similar. I suppose that packagers specifying such a host
>> triplet could yield speedups for (most?) users downloading precompiled
>> binaries on such distributions.
> 
> I would not expect any significant speedups for users of gmp fat builds
> (which is what most or all distros are providing).

That's true, didn't think of that, probably not worth it then.

>> Have there been thoughts of allowing such triplets?
> 
> Is it really "x86_64-v3" with a dash in it? That might complicate the
> splitting of a "triplet" into cpu-vendor-os.
> 
> I'd expect GMP to support any kind of cpu names supported and encouraged
> by autoconf, plus the more specific cpu model names recognized by gmp.

At least I cannot get it to work, or find anything related in 
`config.sub' or `configure.ac'.

Best,
Albin