Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 2:47 AM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> The bottom line is that julia needs SSE2 (and porting it to the x87 FPU
> requires changes that are beyond what I am willing/able to do, see [1]
> for more details). And the presence of SSE2 is not guaranteed on the
> i386 architecture.
chromium upstream decided to go SSE2-only, but I've reverted that in
the Debian packages for now. I would prefer to not diverge, and would
do so if there were a convenient way to detect and prompt users about
the problem (rather than segfault).
Best wishes,
Mike
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