Re: sparc32 and sparc64-only packages

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>]

Jurij Smakov wrote:
> Recently I've been investigating the xine-lib build failure on sparc. It 
> turned out that failure occured due to libavcodec, shipped as a part of 
> xine-lib, using the sparc64-specific assembler instructions in 
> some routines (without providing any generic arch-independent replacement 
> for them). So, the simplest solution is to add something like 
> -mcpu=ultrasparc, which fixes the build failure, but renders xine-lib 
> unusable on sparc32 machine. It turns out that there are at least a few 
> binaries already in the archive (like binaries built from ffmpeg and 
> mpeg2dec source packages) which uses -mcpu=ultrasparc. Those will not work 
> on sparc32 either.

It happens that I approached upstream with this issue today, but without
success: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.xine.devel/15554

I also tried building with the configure flag --disable-vis, but the
same FTBFS occured.

Greetings,
	Reinhard