Hello,

> I am running a sparcstation 5 and was wondering about this the other
> day; are the binaries found on the website compiled for the v7
> processors?  CFLAGS = -0?
I don't know about -O, but they're certainly for v7, probably a few with additional v8 support.

> I guess more generally how do you find out
> what the compile flags are for a particular architecture?
You can use pkgsrc/devel/cpuflags for a few.

> If the above is true, did doing this make any noticable difference to
> the speed of things like ssh?  If so I might put the p4 to some good use
> :)
Definitely. Even gcc seems more bearable now.

have fun
Michael