On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Roland Stigge <sti...@antcom.de> wrote: > Hi Reinhard, > > On 02/27/2013 02:57 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> I don't understand this. Why does gcc on powerpcspe enable altivec by >> default? If powerpcspe ships a gcc that has broken default settings, >> then this should be fixed first. > > I had a second look at this, and it turned out that it's actually a bug > in upstream's configure.
Please propose a patch to fix that instead of changing debian/rules then. > ... in debian/confflags would be nice, though (similar to arch powerpc). > >> I have noticed that you have filed a similar bug against mplayer, and >> suspect that you have filed many more bugs. Is it possible that with >> fixed gcc default settings, no changes would be necessary in mplayer, >> libav and possibly many other packages? > > Right, I filed quite some bugs as you guessed. :-) Feel free to have a > look at > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=powerpcspe;users=debian-powerpc...@breakpoint.cc > > Fortunately, libav's and mplayer2's configure are not very > representative. ;-) The majority of the other bugs are fixes in other > places or plain activation of powerpcspe. > > Will file a similar upstream fix to the mplayer2 package/bug. You did not answer my question/suggestion at all. Can you please comment on my suggestion to fix the gcc package? -- regards, Reinhard _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
