Bug#409255: audacity - FTBFS: error: unrecognized command line option "-msse"
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:42:12AM +0100, Bastian Kleineidam wrote:
> I think the reason for the compile error lies in the SoundTouch package,
> located at lib-src/soundtouch. It uses the -msse flag to compile its
> files. The -msse flag is not supported on all platforms; according to
> documentation only on i386 and x86-64. Yet the flag is used
> unconditionally on all platforms.
The -msse flag enables use of sse opcodes and breaks the code on
machines without sse support. (It seems to be on per defaults on x86-64
as all of them support sse.)
So using this flag is not appropriate for debian i386 packages.
Bastian
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