On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 12:42 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 16:58 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > > You should try to build it in a ppc64el chroot. I think it will fail > > because of altivec. The previous versions of vlc for ppc64el were built > > without altivec enabled, or am I wrong? > > Debian's ppc64el baseline supports baseline, so it should work: > > (sid_ppc64el-dchroot)glaubitz@platti:~$ echo | gcc -E -dM -|grep -i altivec > #define __ALTIVEC__ 1 > #define __pixel __attribute__((altivec(pixel__))) unsigned short > #define __vector __attribute__((altivec(vector__))) > #define __bool __attribute__((altivec(bool__))) unsigned > #define __APPLE_ALTIVEC__ 1 > (sid_ppc64el-dchroot)glaubitz@platti:~$ > > The fact that it was not previously enabled is a bug. > > I will perform a test build now.
vlc builds fine on ppc64el with AltiVec enabled after fixing the typo in my patch (missing last parenthesis). I will test powerpc and ppc64 as well. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
