Re: RFS: nvrec
On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 10:29:14AM +0200, Marc Leeman wrote:
> I have a general question, that I did find a answer for in the debian
> policy guide (don't falme me if I missed it :(( )
>
> Nicolas gave me the advice to exclude all processor optimisations in the
> nvrec package, so I added the configure flags
> --enable-mmxcheck
> --enable-cpucheck
>
> that are set to "no" when I compile the package for the debian archives
> (hopefully) and set to "yes" if somebody else compiles it (currently, if
> your login is "marc", you have bad luck, but I'll change this to if your
> login is "marc" and your hostname is "scorpius" ;) ).
What about autobuilders, or anyone who might have to do a non-maintainer
upload of the package at some point in the future?
> Only one problem. There seems to be an upstream bug (which I conveyed to
> the upstream developer) that breaks the package when compiling without
> these optimisations (--enable-mmxcheck=no). Even though I have little
> doubt that Justin will look into this, my question is more hypothetical:
> what if this is not-fixable upstream? Is this a "deal breaking
> condition" for debian compliancy?
Well, you definitely have to compile without those optimizations, as,
for instance, not all Debian i386 systems have MMX.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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