[FFmpeg-devel] releases and stuff

[Vitor Sessak]

Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:56:47PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>>   
>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:17:07PM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Tuesday, 10 February 2009 at 00:32, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Roman V. Shaposhnik <rvs <at> sun.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>>>> -4435d87463cd6c5407bd88cca241ca56 *./tests/data/a-wmav1.asf
>>>>>> +6f7f3116b801ea641ce14f827de05cce *./tests/data/a-wmav1.asf
>>>>>>           
>>>>> I remember posting an incredibly beautiful patch to fix it, fortunately I can't
>>>>> find it now;-)
>>>>>         
>>>> This?
>>>>
>>>> Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:42:11 +0100
>>>> Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] correct make test failure from 15261
>>>>  releaseuntil now (15899)
>>>>       
>>> Here is the patch from Carl Eugen, it does indeed fix the WMA regression
>>> tests on PPC.  Is this acceptable?  Acceptable minus the commented-out
>>> code I mean.
>>>     
> 
> I strongly object. Doing regressions tests on float code is bound to 
> trigger these things.

I don't like this either. It'll come back over and over again every time 
someone ports ffmpeg to a new arch/compiler/gcc major ver. I think that 
the only clean way to do it is to use some Makefile/configure machinery 
to run this test only in the systems it is supposed to work.

-Vitor