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

Hello,

On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 09:04 -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> There are no PowerPC G3 or earlier Mac systems that support Altivec.

Yes, I know. That's why I raised the idea of conducting a survey.

> Ideally, software would be able to determine at runtime whether Altivec
> is supported and run accordingly.

That's what I mentioned.

> Otherwise, Debian will lose PowerMac 603e and G3 users. It's impossible
> to know how many, since many of them likely don't follow these forums.

It would be important to get such feedback.

FWIW, I did actually fix several packages to build without Altivec support,
so it's not that I want to raise the baseline. I just want to make sure
that we use the right baseline.

Another idea could be to disable Altivec for the 32-bit port and enable it
on the 64-bit port so that the 64-bit embedded CPUs could use the 32-bit
port. But I'm just thinking loudly, so don't worry please!

Adrian

-- 
 .''`.  John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
: :' :  Debian Developer
`. `'   Physicist
  `-    GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546  0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913