sparc32 & gnupg speed problems?

[Remi Guyomarch]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 09:15:35AM -0600, Chris Ruffin wrote:
> 
> Hello, I'm using gnupg on both sparc32 and linux platforms.  I've
> noticed a tremendous speed difference between the two platforms, and
> was wondering if there was something I was doing wrong.  Signing an
> e-mail message with gnupg on a sparc workstation (ultra 1) takes about
> 20 seconds, while my trusty 486/50 MHz Linux machine signs the same
> message (using the same key) in about a second flat.  I compiled gnupg
> for sparc myself using:
> 
> ./configure --disable-nls --disable-dev-random --prefix=$HOME

GnuPG doesn't know how to distinguish between the various architectures. So
it choose v7 by default.
Edit mpi/config.links and rename to "sparc*-*-*)" the sparc case
corresponding to your architecture level.
For example, on my SS10 (supersparc), I patched mpi/config.links this way :

Index: config.links
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/koch/cvs/gnupg/mpi/config.links,v
retrieving revision 1.22.2.2
diff -u -r1.22.2.2 config.links
--- config.links        1999/12/16 09:10:39     1.22.2.2
+++ config.links        2000/01/13 20:35:27
@@ -87,14 +87,9 @@
        echo '/* configured for sparc8 */' >>./mpi/asm-syntax.h
        path="sparc32v8 sparc32"
        ;;
-    supersparc*-*-*)
+    sparc*-*-*)
        echo '/* configured for supersparc */' >>./mpi/asm-syntax.h
        path="supersparc sparc32v8 sparc32"
-       mpi_extra_modules="udiv"
-       ;;
-    sparc*-*-*)
-       echo '/* configured for sparc */' >>./mpi/asm-syntax.h
-       path="sparc32"
        mpi_extra_modules="udiv"
        ;;
     mips[34]*-*-* | mips*-*-irix6*)