[Xapian-discuss] -mtune=generic failure

[Reini Urban]

redhat enterprise 4 (still widely in use in coorp env.)

$ g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-11)

make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/xapian/xapian-core-1.2.2/.build'
depbase=`echo api/decvalwtsource.lo | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.lo$||'`;\
/bin/sh ./libtool  --tag=CXX   --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I.. -I../common -I../include -I./include -I../languages -Ilanguages
-I../queryparser   -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mtune=generic -Wall -W
-Wredundant-decls -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align
-Wno-long-long -Wformat-security -fno-gnu-keywords -Wundef -Wshadow
-Woverloaded-virtual -g -O2 -MT api/decvalwtsource.lo -MD -MP -MF
$depbase.Tpo -c -o api/decvalwtsource.lo ../api/decvalwtsource.cc &&\
mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Plo
libtool: compile:  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../common
-I../include -I./include -I../languages -Ilanguages -I../queryparser
-mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mtune=generic -Wall -W -Wredundant-decls
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long
-Wformat-security -fno-gnu-keywords -Wundef -Wshadow
-Woverloaded-virtual -g -O2 -MT api/decvalwtsource.lo -MD -MP -MF
api/.deps/decvalwtsource.Tpo -c ../api/decvalwtsource.cc  -fPIC -DPIC
-o api/.libs/decvalwtsource.o
../api/decvalwtsource.cc:1: error: bad value (generic) for -mtune= switch
make[2]: *** [api/decvalwtsource.lo] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xapian/xapian-core-1.2.2/.build'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xapian/xapian-core-1.2.2/.build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

removing -mtune=generic created a good build.
A probe would be nice.
-- 
Reini Urban