[FFmpeg-devel] releases and stuff

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:36:19PM -0800, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I'm apt to agree.

The weird thing is that the problem disappeared on my PPC yesterday.
I'm scratching my head in wonderment.  Can somebody confirm?

Diego