Master Branch add MARCH_TARGETNATIVE option for 123.09beta01 and higher

add MARCH_TARGETNATIVE option for 123.09beta01 and higher

- 123.09beta01 and higher can enable intel cpu specific compilation options for nginx and php-fpm for 64bit systems which can improve nginx and php-fpm performance. However, setting march=native will only compile nginx and php-fpm for specific cpu model of the server. This is fine for 99% of folks. However, some cloud VPS hosting providers allow users to migrate VPSes from one VPS host node to another i.e. Linode. The problem is the migrated VPS host node might use a different cpu model/architecture from the old VPS host node causing issues for Nginx and PHP-FPM until you recompile Nginx and PHP-FPM on the new server via centmin.sh menu option 4 and 5 which fixes the issue. Example issue https://community.centminmod.com/threads/nginx-unable-to-start-after-i-migrate-linode-host-nodes.12724/
- this update adds a new centmin.sh option MARCH_TARGETNATIVE='y' set by default to the existing march=native. However, you can set it to MARCH_TARGETNATIVE='n' via persistent config file /etc/centminmod/custom_config.inc which would change march=native to use march=x86-64 for 64bit systems and then recompile Nginx and PHP-FPM via centmin.sh menu option 4 and 5. This will allow you to not tie Nginx and PHP-FPM to specific cpu model/architecture. So you can do this prior to migrating your VPS to a new VPS host node to preserve uptime. Then once on new VPS host node, you can set back to MARCH_TARGETNATIVE='y' and recompile Nginx and PHP-FPM again for better performance.

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