Subject: Re: help with libvisual
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/24/2005 13:05:35
On 2005-05-24, Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:49:22PM +0000, Davide Zanon wrote:
>> Thank you very much, I tried and now I get this:
>> 
>> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../libvisual 
>> -I/usr/pkgsrc/audio/libvisual/work/.buildlink/include 
>> -DPLUGPATH=\"/usr/pkg/lib/libvisual\" -O2 -MT lv_cpu.lo -MD -MP 
>> -MF .deps/lv_cpu.Tpo -c lv_cpu.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/lv_cpu.o
>> /var/tmp//ccdJ5aFR.s: Assembler messages:
>> /var/tmp//ccdJ5aFR.s:175: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `vand'
>> *** Error code 1
>
> I don't speak ppc assembler, so I don't know why it doesn't like
> this.
>
> However, the code just wants to find out if the machine has altivec
> support or not. Do we have a sysctl we could frob instead? Then we
> could avoid that code part.

Yes:
$ sysctl machdep.altivec
machdep.altivec = 0
$ uname -srm
NetBSD 3.99.3 macppc

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Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>