Re: Bug#1115385: vlc: FTBFS on powerpc architecture

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 12:42 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Wed, 2025-09-17 at 16:58 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> > You should try to build it in a ppc64el chroot. I think it will fail 
> > because of altivec. The previous versions of vlc for ppc64el were built 
> > without altivec enabled, or am I wrong?
> 
> Debian's ppc64el baseline supports baseline, so it should work:
> 
> (sid_ppc64el-dchroot)glaubitz@platti:~$ echo | gcc -E -dM -|grep -i altivec
> #define __ALTIVEC__ 1
> #define __pixel __attribute__((altivec(pixel__))) unsigned short
> #define __vector __attribute__((altivec(vector__)))
> #define __bool __attribute__((altivec(bool__))) unsigned
> #define __APPLE_ALTIVEC__ 1
> (sid_ppc64el-dchroot)glaubitz@platti:~$
> 
> The fact that it was not previously enabled is a bug.
> 
> I will perform a test build now.

vlc builds fine on ppc64el with AltiVec enabled after fixing the typo
in my patch (missing last parenthesis). I will test powerpc and ppc64
as well.

Adrian

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