[FFmpeg-devel] Hacks on FATE

[Robert Swain]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:00:33 +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com>
wrote:
> Some of the FATE configurations are using decidedly non-standard
> configure options.  Some even apply PATCHES to the code.  This is not
> the way we want it to be.

[...]

> x86_32 MacOSX: --disable-decoder=cavs
>   Compiler bug?

Lack of registers and poor register allocation as I recall.

[...]

> x86_32 OpenBSD: cavsdsp_mmx-fPIC-friendly.diff; CFLAGS='-fPIC -DPIC'
>   Does OpenBSD require PIC even for static builds?  If so, this should
>   be handled in configure.  And what's in the patch?

Maybe related to OS X? Maybe the patch contains something that helps for
x86_32 OS X as well...?

Regards,
Rob