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CFLAGS for mpeg_play?

Post by Juergen Koslows » Fri, 17 May 1996 04:00:00



Hi there,

I'm seeing nice speed improvements after installing PGC pl8 on my
machine, especially when compiling with the -O6 option (e.g.,
12% in teTeX, and a noticable improvement in xanim).  But when I
tried to recompile mpeg_play (version 2.1), I could not recreate
the behaviour or the speed of the linux ELF binary that is
available.  Running on a 32 bit display, the ELF binary automatically
seems to use "-dither color" (although it explicitly suggests this
option), and prints out messages to the effect that memory is being
shared.  All the versions I compiled used "-dither ordered" by
default (no matter what flags I set in the Makefile), and did not
produce messages about shared memory.  Explicitly requesting the
option "-dither color" when running the program fixe the first
problem.  But in any case, the versions I compiled were slower
(I got frame rates of <12.6 compared to >13.6 with the ELF binary).
I do have an ELF system.  So I'd like to know what tweaks were
used to produce this nice fast binary???

cheers,

-- J"urgen

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1. Summary of answers: feeding CFLAGS of "make CFLAGS=-g" to sub-makes

Thanks to everyone who replied to my question about how to ensure that
"arguments" such as "CFLAGS=-g" in a command line such as

        make CFLAGS=-g whatever ...

get fed to recursively-invoked makes.


sub-makes if you use a command line of the above form.


and you're a "sh" user, you can use a command such as

        CFLAGS=-g make whatever ...

to get the desired effect--since the

        CFLAGS=-g

precedes the word "make", it gets put in the environment; System V make
(and in particular, sub-makes) looks in the environment for variables.


look through the environment for variable values.


a version of make derived from System V that runs under BSD.
This version does pay attention to the environment.
But even with a MORE/bsd source license, you don't get /usr/5bin/make source.
Still, if you're willing to run an unmaintainable program, you can follow the
directions in the Mt. Xinu documentation and use /usr/5bin/make.


and are unwilling to run an unmaintainable program) and you're a "sh" user,
putting this script in your personal "bin" directory:

        #! /bin/csh -f

        exec /bin/make $*:q "`printenv`"

should allow you to use commands such as

        CFLAGS=-g make whatever ...

and get the desired effect.
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