[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: Hack to allow compilation for x32.

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Nicolas George <george at nsup.org> wrote:

> Le duodi 12 brumaire, an CCXXIII, Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> > Configures it as x86_64 with assembler disabled.
>
> If x32 were to become relatively common, i.e. for example if one of the
> major Linux distros were to make a specific x32 release where this is the
> default compiler mode, it may become a problem to have assembler silently
> disabled.
>
> IMHO, a warning at least would be necessary; possibly even explicit user
> consent, i.e. "enabled asm && die "x32 only works with --disable-asm"
> instead of "disable asm".


I'd like to +1 this, we should not encourage users to silently and
ignorantly create crippled builds.

Ronald