Re: mplayer on ppc G3

Ralf Ertzinger wrote :

> Matthias, the current mplayer build for FC4/ppc does not work on G3 
> processors (dies with a SIGILL in ao2_init). Rebuilding the SRPM locally 
> makes it work.

Sounds like a build time altivec detection of some kind, since my current
builds come from a Grey G4, whereas older ones were done on a Beige G3.
Could you compare my build log with yours? Still, two options :
- Either MPlayer has a way of enabling some kind of runtime CPU detection
  as it does for x86.
- Either G4/altivec will need to be explicitly disabled, which might
  impact performance on those machines, I don't really know.

Please let us know what you find...

Matthias

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