Bug#1115385: vlc: FTBFS on powerpc architecture

Well done!

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz schreef op 2025-09-17 18:13:
> On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 12:42 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 16:58 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
>> > You should try to build it in a ppc64el chroot. I think it will fail
>> > because of altivec. The previous versions of vlc for ppc64el were built
>> > without altivec enabled, or am I wrong?
>> 
>> Debian's ppc64el baseline supports baseline, so it should work:
>> 
>> (sid_ppc64el-dchroot)glaubitz@platti:~$ echo | gcc -E -dM -|grep -i 
>> altivec
>> #define __ALTIVEC__ 1
>> #define __pixel __attribute__((altivec(pixel__))) unsigned short
>> #define __vector __attribute__((altivec(vector__)))
>> #define __bool __attribute__((altivec(bool__))) unsigned
>> #define __APPLE_ALTIVEC__ 1
>> (sid_ppc64el-dchroot)glaubitz@platti:~$
>> 
>> The fact that it was not previously enabled is a bug.
>> 
>> I will perform a test build now.
> 
> vlc builds fine on ppc64el with AltiVec enabled after fixing the typo
> in my patch (missing last parenthesis). I will test powerpc and ppc64
> as well.
> 
> Adrian