Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:00:53PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I do not understand this part. > > -maltivec should only be set for the code that is behind the runtime > feature check, so this code is only run on hardware that has AltiVec. Well a mistake in the configure script is making it set f

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:29:43PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: >... > -CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -maltivec" > +CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -maltivec -fno-tree-vectorize" >... > And I realized the reason it was broken is that when using -maltivec and > -O4 (which vlc uses), you get -ftree-vectorize automat

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-08 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 01:33:36PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > And of course I made a typo while copying things into the patch. > > Doing another build test of it now. > > --- vlc-2.2.4.orig/configure.ac 2016-05-31 12:11:07.0 -0400 > +++ vlc-2.2.4/configure.ac2016-11-04 12:

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
And of course I made a typo while copying things into the patch. Doing another build test of it now. --- vlc-2.2.4.orig/configure.ac 2016-05-31 12:11:07.0 -0400 +++ vlc-2.2.4/configure.ac 2016-11-04 12:22:02.543265439 -0400 @@ -1422,25 +1422,24 @@ VLC_SAVE_FLAGS AC_CACHE_CHECK(

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Lennart Sorensen
Actually maybe this simpler version is better. I think I just figured out why libdeinterlace wasn't getting the altivec flags, which was that it was listed as deinterlace rather than libdeinterlace. Doing a build test of it now. --- vlc-2.2.4.orig/configure.ac 2016-05-31 12:11:07.0 -0400

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-04 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
On 2016-11-03 13:58:58, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:42:17PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Well that looks like it only adds it for libvlccore. > > So at least something like this is needed, but I think the VLCCORE is > wrong too, and maybe the deinterlace has to be mo

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-03 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:42:17PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Well that looks like it only adds it for libvlccore. So at least something like this is needed, but I think the VLCCORE is wrong too, and maybe the deinterlace has to be moved to only merge.c rather than all of deinterlace. --- c

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 07:37:33PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:08:03PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 12:22:19PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 04:34:01PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > This doesn't looks wrong

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 01:08:03PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 12:22:19PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 04:34:01PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This doesn't looks wrong to me. > > > > > > Note that depending on the software --enable-alti

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 12:22:19PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 04:34:01PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This doesn't looks wrong to me. > > > > Note that depending on the software --enable-altivec can either mean > > - compile unconditionally for AltiVec, or > > - enab

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 04:34:01PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This doesn't looks wrong to me. > > Note that depending on the software --enable-altivec can either mean > - compile unconditionally for AltiVec, or > - enable AltiVec parts with autodetection to only use them when the > hardware sup

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 09:56:45AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:13:00PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This actually looks like a bug in upstream configure.ac to me: > > VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([libvlccore],[${ac_cv_c_altivec}]) > > ALTIVEC_CFLAGS="$ALTIVEC_FLAGS ${ac_c

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-01 Thread luigi burdo
56 A: Adrian Bunk Cc: James Cowgill; Robert Ou; debian-powe...@lists.debian.org; 842...@bugs.debian.org Oggetto: Re: Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:13:00PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This actually looks like a bug in upstream configure.a

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-11-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:13:00PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This actually looks like a bug in upstream configure.ac to me: > VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([libvlccore],[${ac_cv_c_altivec}]) > ALTIVEC_CFLAGS="$ALTIVEC_FLAGS ${ac_cv_c_altivec} ${ac_cv_c_altivec_abi}" > VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([deinterlace],[$

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2016-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > retitle -1 vlc: configure.ac altivec setting broken Bug #842513 [src:vlc] vlc: should prevent installation on powerpc G3 Changed Bug title to 'vlc: configure.ac altivec setting broken' from 'vlc: should prevent installation on powerpc G3'. -- 842513: http://bugs.d

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-10-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
Control: retitle -1 vlc: configure.ac altivec setting broken On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 11:40:50AM +, James Cowgill wrote: >... > On 30/10/16 00:16, Robert Ou wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:43 PM, James Cowgill wrote: > >> Control: tags -1 help > >> Control: severity -1 grave > >> > >> Hi,

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-10-31 Thread Robert Ou
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 4:40 AM, James Cowgill wrote: > Control: tags -1 - help > Control: severity -1 important > Control: retitle -1 vlc: should prevent installation on powerpc G3 > > Hi, > > On 30/10/16 00:16, Robert Ou wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:43 PM, James Cowgill wrote: >>> Contro

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-10-30 Thread James Cowgill
Control: tags -1 - help Control: severity -1 important Control: retitle -1 vlc: should prevent installation on powerpc G3 Hi, On 30/10/16 00:16, Robert Ou wrote: > On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:43 PM, James Cowgill wrote: >> Control: tags -1 help >> Control: severity -1 grave >> >> Hi, >> >> On 29/1

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2016-10-30 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 - help Bug #842513 [src:vlc] vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc Removed tag(s) help. > severity -1 important Bug #842513 [src:vlc] vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc Severity set to 'important' from 'grave' > retitle -1 vlc: should prevent insta

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-10-29 Thread Robert Ou
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 3:43 PM, James Cowgill wrote: > Control: tags -1 help > Control: severity -1 grave > > Hi, > > On 29/10/16 23:00, Robert Ou wrote: >> Package: src:vlc >> Version: 2.2.4-7 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> I decided I wanted to test the performance of Debian P

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2016-10-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > tags -1 help Bug #842513 [src:vlc] vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc Added tag(s) help. > severity -1 grave Bug #842513 [src:vlc] vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc Severity set to 'grave' from 'normal' -- 842513: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-10-29 Thread James Cowgill
Control: tags -1 help Control: severity -1 grave Hi, On 29/10/16 23:00, Robert Ou wrote: > Package: src:vlc > Version: 2.2.4-7 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > I decided I wanted to test the performance of Debian PowerPC on my > ancient iMac, and I discovered that vlc will immediatel

Bug#842513: vlc: immediate crash on launch on powerpc

2016-10-29 Thread Robert Ou
Package: src:vlc Version: 2.2.4-7 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, I decided I wanted to test the performance of Debian PowerPC on my ancient iMac, and I discovered that vlc will immediately crash with an illegal instruction right after showing the "Privacy and Network Access Policy" window and