[Debian-med-packaging] SSE3 issue with iqtree when trying to enable i386 (Was: Help with new version of iqtree needed)

[Tung Nguyen]

Dear Andreas,

Then we will provide a compiler flag to remove the SSE requirement. We also
have non-sse code for the same functions, so this should be easy.

Cheers
Tung


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016, 22:02 Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 09:56:53PM +0100, Gert Wollny wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 19:20 +0000, Tung Nguyen wrote:
> > > Maybe we will provide a flag to disable the SSE instructions
> > > completely for use on i386. However, if the patch from Gert works
> > > well then it would be the best solution.
> >
> > The patch only provides an SSE2 code path for that one SSE3 instruction
> > that was forced in the code, so it does not really help to get the code
> > compile for the the lowest spec i386 hardware supported by Debian.
> >
> > Providing a code path without any SSE could also be interesting if you
> > think of getting the code ported to other architectures (ARM, PowerPC,
> > ...).
>
> If you could really come up without any requirement for SSE this would
> be great since the goal of Debian is to support all those architectures
> if possible.
>
> If you could confirm this attempt I might go for an amd64 package
> exclusively for the moment and wide the number of architectures later
> in a clean way.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de
>
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