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

Hi Jeroen,

On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 07:11 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> I was not suggesting to turn off Altivec for all powerpc based machines. 

Well, your patch disables AltiVec unconditionally, so also on ppc64el.

> All I am suggesting is to turn it off for the package VLC, so it can be 
> successfully autobuilt. I built VLC for powerpc that way successfully. 
> It was shown to work on the Mirari board.

I'm aware of that. However, I took this bug report as the chance to discuss
this topic as it's a general question that we should agree on.

Adrian

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