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Re: vlc 0.2.92-4



On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 15:07, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    Is anyone else seeing crashes in vlc 0.2.92-4 when you play a
> dvd on ppc? The previous 0.2.92-1 through -3 source packages wouldn't
> build on my ppc machine because of some changes for MacOS X which
> introduced a vand altivec asm instruction our devtools doesn't
> support. Locally I had regressed the altivec test back to the
> old assembly and got the same sort of crash in vlc that I see
> in 0.2.92-4.

Works here so it seems to be an altivec specific failure.

> The maintainer only knows one developer who has a ppc linux box and he
> hasn't heard back yet from him. It might be helpful to get some more
> info on this bug to him if anyone has a useful strace or gdb log.

Sounds like you're in a good position to provide that?


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast



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