Bug#572420: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

[peter green]

peter green wrote:
> >The bug is actually in libsdl1.2debian. It has improper compile flags
> >for powerpc g3. What these are I do not know.
> looking at the build log -maltivec seems to be the smoking gun. It 
> appears the upstream configure script is looking for altivec support 
> at build time and enabling it if it detects it (which is the right 
> thing to do when building for your own system but the WRONG thing to 
> do when building distribution packages)
>
> Ideally this sort of issue needs access to ppc hardware both with and 
> without altivec to nail it down (you need to do the builds on machines 
> with altivec support and then check they work on machines without it) 
> . I'll try to take a look using qemu but I can't promise anything.
I've come up with a patch which I beleive should fix this but building 
with qemu is extremely slow and in any case to properly test this really 
needs hardware both with (to do the build) and without (to test it) 
altivec to properly test.

anyone on debian-powerpc have access to both and willing to test this?

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