Default to G4 on darwin for 10.5+

[Bradley Lucier]

OK, that makes sense, but it's been over five years since Apple sold  
a machine without a vector processor (Altivec or SSE*), I thought it  
might also make sense to start testing them.

Other people test other options, I suppose.

Brad

On Dec 13, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Mike Stump wrote:

>
> On Dec 10, 2006, at 3:43 PM, Bradley Lucier wrote:
>> Would it be a good idea, then, for Apple's automatic regression  
>> tester to start specifying
>>
>> RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board 'unix{-mcpu=G4}'"
>
> Geoff tests just the defaults on his box.  It currently runs 10.4.   
> When/if it is updated to 10.5, it'd pick these up by default.  The  
> rational is, this is most likely what a user would do and the thing  
> that needs the most testing.  While it could exhaustively test lots  
> of combinations, that would slow the testing rate, and Geoff  
> prefers to not decrease the turn around on it.
>
> But, yes, unix{-mcpu=G3,-mcpu=G4,-mcpu=G5,-m64} and so on would be  
> nice to have...