Altivec

[Benjamin Drung]

Am Sonntag, den 26.02.2012, 15:50 +0100 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> Hi,
> 
> I notice in recent changelog of VLC that apparently it is now built with 
> altivec on PowerPC, as a fix for bug#660936.

No, the bug was, that -maltivec wasn't passed to one plugin. I checked
the log of 1.1.13 and it was build the same way (with -maltivec).

> Is that ok?  I mean, do we no longer support non-altivec PowerPC 
> machines, or is it somehow ensured that only an Altivec plugin is 
> affected, not all code?

Only a few plugins are build with Altivec.

-- 
Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer
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