I know there's a file in /etc for gentoo that lets one keep their cflags settings stored so they don't have to keep on manually entering them each time they want to compile a new program. I also know that I did something like this once in Slack, but I just don't remember how to do it now (had to reformat, System Tools apparently doesn't like to properly resize ReiserFS partitions....)

Anyway, what I've done so far is creat a file called ~/.bash_profile for one of my users, and here's what's in that file:

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
export CHOST
export CFLAGS
export CXXFLAGS

since I'm on a P4 computer, I'm trying to optimize this puppy for my architecture. Now is there anything else I have to do? Keep in mind that all I've done is create this file, nothing more.

Thanks for the help

Edit:

It wouldn't happen to be the /etc/profile file, would it?

If you put this settings in ~/.bash_profile, make sure you add in ~/.bashrc :

source .bash_profile

So the settings are read in each case you open a new bash shell. Also, if it is not a typo, try correct the march switch in your CXXFLAGS, you forget the '-' before 'march'

Yeah, that was a typo, sorry about that. Turns out I found out you can put the info in the /etc/profile and it uses the settings system-wide, so I don't need to add it to all of the users' settings and the root's individually