[MPlayer-users] problem with configure script

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:27:53AM -0700, Steven M. Schultz wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> 
> > > if darwin ; then
> > >     if [[ `sysctl -n hw.vectorunit` == 1 ]]; then
> > >         _altivec=yes
> > >     fi
> > 
> > Yes, whoever added that is clueless about shell scripting. I just
> > fixed it in cvs. Sorry about that.
> 
> 	I see the fix was what I thought it should be :)
> 
> 	As long as we're on the topic of altivec enabled machines...
> 
> 	The _altivec variable is clobbered (forced to 'no') during the
> 	check for <altivec.h>.   This causes G4 based systems which do
> 	have Altivec instructions (but lack altivec.h - OS/X systems for
> 	example) to not use them
> 
> 	Defining another flag "have_altivec_h" would seem to be a solution
> 	to the problem:

It probably is broken, but I'll leave fixing that to someone who's
capable of testing it... If you'd like you can make a patch and submit
it to -dev-eng with [PATCH] in the subject and one of the developers
with ppc will probably commit it.

Rich