[SCM] FFmpeg packaging branch, master, updated. debian/0.5.1-2-2-g5652487

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:53:27AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:17:59 (CET), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 08:48:40PM +0000, siretart at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>>>diff --git a/debian/patches/fix-ftbfs-altivec.patch b/debian/patches/fix-ftbfs-altivec.patch
>>
>>>++#if ARCH_PPC && defined COMPILE_ALTIVEC
>>>      if (flags & SWS_CPU_CAPS_ALTIVEC)
>>>          return swScale_altivec;
>>>      else
>>
>> Doesn't above mean that if the compiler host supports altivec then the
>> compiled binary won't work without altivec?
>
>Yes and no. ffmpeg builds two different flavors on powerpc, one that is
>configured with --enable altivec and gets installed into
>/usr/lib/altivec and another one configured --without-altivec and gets
>installed to /usr/lib.
>
>/lib/ld-linux.so queries the kernel for hardware capabilities and sets
>the .so search path appropriately.

Cool!

thanks for the explanation. :-)


  - Jonas

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