[FFmpeg-devel] releases and stuff

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:14:54PM +0100, Vitor Sessak wrote:
> 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.

I'm currently tempted to disable the test in the release version.

Diego