[Debian-med-packaging] Infernal on i386

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Jackson,

thanks for your input.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:10:24AM +1000, Jackson Doak wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Would it be possible to build infernal on i386 again, and use a script to
> check for SSE2 support?
> 
> For example, The package "ikarus", also requires SSE2 support.
> It has a check in the preinst script which aborts installation if
> sse2 is unavailable.
> 
> case "$1" in
>     install|upgrade)
> 	if egrep -q '^flags[[:space:]]*:.*\bsse2\b' /proc/cpuinfo; then
> 	    # echo CPU instruction set extension sse2 confirmed
> 	    true
> 	else
> 	    echo "error: CPU flag sse2 not found, aborting installation"
> 	    exit 1
> 	fi
>     ;;

I admit I'm not sure whether this is really the best solution for the
problem.  If you try to install a set of packages including infernal (or
ikarus) the installation just throws an error.  This sounds suboptimal
to me.  Is there any better solution for this problem?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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