Bug#328558: avifile-utils unavailable for powerpc
On 9/16/05, Albert Cahalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: avifile-utilsVersion: 1:0.7.43.20050224-1Severity: importantI see no reason why this package should be restricted to just PCs.I wish to modify avi files on my Mac. Well I see the one - I'm the maintainer of the packages and as well as developer of avifile itself - I really don't have time to work on all platforms - if you have time and knowledge and you want to help me with making this packages usable on PowerPC you are welcome - avifile is written portable and if it doens't work on bigendian machines it's obviously a stupid bug somewhere (and I know it used to work on PowerPC) - but as majority of people are using mplayer which has tons of developers across all the platforms - I'm just about happy I do handle update of libs and so on for avifile for i386 platform ;) So you can consider this a request to allow building for all the otherports as well: alpha, hppa, sparc, mips... Well if you wish to help me with this you are welcome - I'll be happy when I make a new relase with new libs within next few weeks for i386 (note - use CVS version from sourceforge if you want to help me) kabi
Bug#328558: avifile-utils unavailable for powerpc
I see no reason why this package should be restricted to just PCs. I wish to modify avi files on my Mac. Well I see the one - I'm the maintainer of the packages and as well as developer of avifile itself - I really don't have time to work on all platforms - if you have time and knowledge and you want to help me with making this packages usable on PowerPC you are welcome - avifile is written portable and if it doens't work on bigendian machines it's obviously a stupid bug somewhere (and I know it used to work on PowerPC) - but as majority of people are using mplayer which has tons of developers across all the platforms - I'm just about happy I do handle update of libs and so on for avifile for i386 platform ;) I have players, though admittedly they are cruddy. I want the tools, not the player. I really just want to make snapshots. (best would be lossless extraction of I-frames to JPEG) Simply allowing non-x86 builds would be a great start. There should be a package for me to install, but there isn't. Perhaps it would work. Blocking the build makes sense for something like valgrind, where failure on non-x86 has very obvious and non-trivial reasons. Add albert to the SourceForge project if you'd like me to give that a try. I'm kind of busy with the procps, saturntools, and tuxpaint projects though.
Bug#328558: avifile-utils unavailable for powerpc
Package: avifile-utils Version: 1:0.7.43.20050224-1 Severity: important I see no reason why this package should be restricted to just PCs. I wish to modify avi files on my Mac. The main oddities of the powerpc port are: 1. byte order is big-endian, so casting and unions may be bad 2. the char type is unsigned by default (use signed char as needed) Along with the problems you've already handled for the x86-64 port (data type sizes, lib64, and any abuse of assembly code), the above should cover pretty much everything needed to support all Linux ports. So you can consider this a request to allow building for all the other ports as well: alpha, hppa, sparc, mips...
