Bug#701561: ioquake3: FTBFS on powerpcspe

Roland Stigge stigge at antcom.de
Mon Feb 25 10:59:38 UTC 2013


Hi,

On 02/25/2013 11:37 AM, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On 24/02/13 13:19, Roland Stigge wrote:
>> This is due to PowerPC/Altivec code that doesn't work on powerpcspe.
>>
>> Attaching a patch that fixes this by omitting the respective instructions
>> on powerpcspe.
> 
> Do the resulting binaries work on non-Altivec PowerPCs, or have you just
> build-tested it?

I built it, and checked that the /usr/lib/ioquake3/ioquake3 executable
starts (pak0.pk3 is missing, though).

> I'd rather have ioquake3 build on fewer architectures
> than have it build, but not work.

Removing powerpcspe from the supported Debian arches would be fine. Just
please don't tell "linux-any" if you don't mean it.

> Because the virtual machine is involved, the way to test it would be to
> either use quake3 and game-data-packager (you'll need baseq3/pak0.pk3
> from a retail Quake III Arena CD-ROM or installation

Don't have this one, unfortunately. I guess it's non-free? ;-)

Roland



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