[MPlayer-dev-eng] Something is wrong with configure...

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:58:58PM +0200, Chris Roccati wrote:
> Under MacOSX, the current CVS tries to build altivec code without - 
> faltivec and without #include <altivec.h>, but just a few days ago it  
> did work correctly (even if with some "warning: #warning Ignoring  
> <altivec.h> because "-faltivec" specified")...
> 
> This seems to be caused by the fact that the "Checking for CFLAGS"  
> section of the configure script was moved before the altivec compiler  
> flags style check. In fact, moving the "Checking for CFLAGS" code  
> back where it was (right before the gdb autoattach check), fixes the  
> problem without any apparent side effect.

We're aware of the problem, but it's non-trivial to fix/workaround
properly and right now LinuxTag preparations are taking up all of our
time.  In any case, if we don't come up with a fix we will back this
out for the release.

Diego