[FFmpeg-devel] releases and stuff

[Måns Rullgård]

Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:

> 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?

I suspect butterflies.  If you ping me tonight I can check it on ps3.

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