Re: Bug#112564: xmms won't play mp3s when compiled w/optimization on ia64

[Jeff Licquia <jlicquia@progeny.com>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:27:37PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:16:56PM -0500, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> > Package: xmms
> > Version: 1.2.5-2
> > 
> > Attempting to play an MP3 file on xmms on ia64 causes an immediate
> > crash of the app.  The problem was solved by turning off optimization
> > when building (i.e. no -O2).
> > 
> > This was using gcc 2.96 (the default gcc for ia64).  Building with gcc
> > 3.0 may fix the problem, but this is currently impossible because of
> > broken deps for gcc 3.0 for ia64.  If this were to fix the problem,
> > then xmms for ia64 should probably Build-Depend on gcc 3, and should
> > take steps to ensure that gcc 3 is used to do the build.  Otherwise,
> > optimization should simply be turned off if DEB_BUILD_ARCH is ia64.
> 
> Er. So, what do I do? :)

Sorry if that was a bit opaque.

For now, I'd recommend just turning off -O2.  Something like this in
debian/rules, maybe?

ifneq "$(findstring debug,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))" ""
CFLAGS := -g
else
ifeq "$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH)" "ia64"
CFLAGS := ""
else
CFLAGS := -O2
endif
endif