Bug#755540: libav: FTBFS on ppc64el architecture

[Reinhard Tartler]

Control: tag -1 -patch +moreinfo

Hi Breno,

On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Breno Leitao <brenohl at br.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>>> I am attaching a patch to disable altivec on ppc64el at the moment.
>>>> Ubuntu is also using the same patch.
>>>
>>> It seems Ubuntu doesn't disable altivec at all:
>>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/6:10.2-2/+build/6199083
>>>
>>> In fact, it seems in ubuntu the package builds with altivec just fine:
>> hmm, doesn't Ubuntu has the workaround you provided here?
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libav/+bug/1263802
>
> A better solution was found upstream:
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-multimedia/libav.git/commit/?h=upstream&id=0ec75a04e5fc714bc3cd6e2a6b783e6df834ad01
>
> This was part of libav 10.2, which was uploaded to Debian first, and
> then copied over to Ubuntu. This is why I'm so confused that you are
> experiencing this problem in Debian, but claim the problem was fixed
> in Ubuntu.
>
> Can you please recheck that you are in fact trying to use Libav 10.2
> and not 10.1, and clarify what's going on?
>
> Note that upstream was not 100% sure if that is the right fix, as we
> lack the hardware to test this properly. Feedback to
> libav-devel at libav.org on the patch is very welcome.

Any news  on this?

TBH, I don't believe that there is anything to do for this in the
Debian package, but before closing this bugreport, I'd like to hear a
word from you first.

Thanks!

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard