On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 11:01:00AM +0900, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that recent uploads of iceweasel 38 to unstable failed to > build on mips/mipsel on a libjpeg-turbo file that: > - built fine in previous versions of iceweasel 38 > - built fine in a stretch backport of the current version of iceweasel > from unstable > - built fine when built in the libjpeg-turbo package on buildds > - but failed to build in libjpeg-turbo on a mips porterbox > > The build error manifests itself in the form of multiple lines of the > form: > jsimd_mips_dspr2.S:<line>: Error: float register should be even, was <odd > number> > > I wish I could test a downgrade of binutils in the schroot on the porter > box, but I can't. > > Could someone please look into this?
Okay, I found the difference: gcc passes -mips2 -mfpxx to as that it wasn't passing before. Removing -mfpxx fixes the issue. Now the question is whether this is expected, and the libjpeg-turbo code changed accordingly, or whether gcc shouldn't pass those new flags? Cheers, Mike
