Re: mplayer packages
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 22:14, Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:04:01PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > Thanks! I had trouble building mplayer 1.0pre1 with gcc-3.3 (got gcc internal
> > error). You had no trouble with the AltiVec part of the build
> > process?
> I che ated, I hacked the Makefile of the libavcodec/ subdir to use a cvs
> gcc and even that one ICEs if you pass '-g', so I had to disable that
> too:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11983
>
> > As I understand when reading http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/
> > it's G4-only, so -g4 would be a better suffix IMO.
> > Like Marillat's packages have a i386 (ppc/powerpc suffix here) version for
> > ALL x86-based archs and i686,k7,k6 specific versions (g4 suffix) for CPU
> > optimized mplayer/mencoder packages.
> Well, I'm not very familiar with the PowerPC family of processors yet,
> will the g5 have a different/improved altivec instruction set? Is it
> still called altivec then? In this case -g4 would make more sense. I'm
> also still unsure what will be the best -mcpu and -march flags for
> G4s (although I doubt it will make much of a difference).
I used to use: -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -maltivec -mabi=altivec but as
already noted, gcc-3.3 segfaults on the libavcodec subdir
Soeren.
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