[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] configure and altivec

[Diego Biurrun]

Magnus Damm writes:
 > The attached patch is a remedy for the following problems:
 > 
 > *  CC is not checked for Altivec support (see above).
 >    The patch adds checks for FSF-style flags and Darwin-style flags.
 >    The check is performed regardless of the gcc version.
 > 
 > *  Disabling of Altivec. 
 >    --disable-altivec is broken today if /proc/cpuinfo shows that your cpu 
 >    supports altivec. The patch takes care of that.
 > 
 > *  "GCC & CPU optimization abilities" always show that it is optimizing
 >    for the cpu configure is running on, it should show the optimization that
 >    is enabled for gcc instead. Cosmetic change only, but confusing as it is 
 >    today IMHO.
 > 
 > *  Runtime CPU-detection now enables altivec for powerpc.

What about this patch?

Diego