Re: VLC on G5 crash : illegal instruction
Hello!
> On Mar 6, 2021, at 2:33 PM, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
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> I just tried VLC on a G5... it starts but as soon as I try to open a file, it dies "inside" the file selector! Not just a file, trying to click on my home directory, I get illegal instruction.ù
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> If I give it a MP4 on the command line, it will come up and then die with illegal instruction.
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> How does it work for you? and a G4? I will try there next week.
Please install the dbgsym/dbg package for VLC and ffmpeg and provide a backtrace.
Most likely someone added VSX support to either of them without guarding the code with #ifdefs.
Adrian
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