From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: The line "%define optflags -g" in textutils.spec causes all programs in the package to be built without any optimization. On a 1.7 GHz Xeon workstation with 2 GB of memory, checking the MD5 sum of a 600 MB iso image takes 29 seconds using /usr/bin/md5sum. The same operation takes less than 5 seconds using a private copy of md5sum recompiled with the optflags line removed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.time /usr/bin/md5sum xxx.iso 2.recompile md5sum with some level of optimization 3.time ./md5sum xxx.iso Actual Results: Recompiled md5sum runs much faster than /usr/bin/md5sum. The same is true with other programs in textutils. Expected Results: Programs in /usr/bin should have decent, if not optimal, performance. Additional info:
This was necessary at some point because of compiler problems, but since they have been fixed since, I agree it should be removed. Done in 2.0.21-4.