Re: Bug#1115385: vlc: FTBFS on powerpc architecture

Christian Zigotzky <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 16 September 2025 at 12:34 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 17:17 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
>> My apologies, I did the diff the wrong way. This is the correct one.
>> 
>> diff -Nru vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules
>> --- vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules    2025-08-23 20:15:15.000000000 +0700
>> +++ vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules    2025-09-15 21:50:45.000000000 +0700
>> @@ -250,13 +250,10 @@
>>  removeplugins += neon
>>  endif
>> 
>> -# PowerPC specific optimizations (excluding powerpcspe)
>> -ifeq (,$(filter-out powerpc,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU))$(filter
>> powerpcspe,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH)))
>> -confflags += --enable-altivec
>> -else
>> +# PowerPC build fo e5500 with altivec disabled
>>  confflags += --disable-altivec
>>  removeplugins += altivec
>> -endif
>> +
> 
> Passing --disable-altivec unconditionally would also disable it on ppc64el
> which is a NAK.
> 
> I also think we should start a survey to find out whether there is actually
> a significant number of users with PowerPC machines not capable of AltiVec
> as disabling it causes a significant performance hit for targets which support
> it.
> 
> Adrian
> 
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There are a lot of e5500 machines (X5000/20 and X5000/40) without AltiVec support and with Debian installed.

And a new e5500 board will be released soon. [1]

[1] https://mirari.vitasys.nl
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