[MPlayer-dev-eng] new Altivec patches and G3

[Tim]

On Feb 19, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Alan Curry wrote:

> If you use --enable-altivec in this case, you're lying to configure,
> preventing it from doing the right thing... crashes are to be  
> expected. Did
> any past versions work if configured this way?

Like I said, without --enable-altivec works just fine.  That's why I  
was confused and did it with.  It doesn't even *try* to detect  
altivec after the CPU detection realizes it has a 750.  The only  
other argument I passed to configure was --enable-debug.
>
> Sounds like maybe the first sysctl should have quotes, like the  
> second one
> does, and possibly 2>/dev/null to keep it quiet, like this:
>
> Index: configure
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/mplayer/main/configure,v
> retrieving revision 1.1134
> diff -u -r1.1134 configure
> --- configure	16 Feb 2006 20:45:24 -0000	1.1134
> +++ configure	19 Feb 2006 21:54:30 -0000
> @@ -1179,7 +1179,7 @@
>          ;;
>        Darwin)
>  	proc=`$_cpuinfo | grep "Processor type" | cut -f 3 -d ' ' | sed  
> 's/ppc//'`
> -	if [ `sysctl -n hw.vectorunit` -eq 1 -o \
> +	if [ "`sysctl -n hw.vectorunit 2>/dev/null`" -eq 1 -o \
>  	    "`sysctl -n hw.optional.altivec 2>/dev/null`" -eq 1 ]; then
>  	    _altivec=yes
>  	fi

Nope, still the same error.

Tim