Bug#1087831: openal-soft: FTBFS on powerpc|ppc64: assumes that PowerPC machines, toolchains support Altivec

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi Sean,

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:42:23 -0500 Sean McGovern wrote:
> Is there any interest in having an 'altivec' flavour for this package?
> Similar to what 'x264' and several other packages do?

introduction of the "altivec" flavor for x264 happened some 14 years ago 
when powerpc was still a relevant arch.

I'd suggest to simply disable SIMD code for all legacy archs and be fine 
with it. This could also close #995194 while at it.

Thanks,

  - Fabian