On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 12:19:52PM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > Eric Christopherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are others able to build cpu_accel.c? Is there a way to just disable > > this part of the build? > > I just checked and I had no problem to compile DirectFB from CVS on > debian testing. As far as I know, Dok is using debian unstable, so it > should compile there as well. > > You can disable most of the code in cpu_accel.h by calling configure > with --disable-sse or even --disable-mmx.
Disabling both of them did it for me. Not content with that, however, I did a web search of the insidious error message "can't find a register in class `BREG' while reloading `asm'." It appears that this message means that %ebx is listed as an output (or otherwise gets clobbered), which is not permissible in PIC code. So I had a hunch that PIC was undefined as far as cpp was concerned, which made cpp define cpuid in its not-PIC form instead of its PIC form. So, I just added "#define PIC" above the check and definition of cpuid, and sure enough it compiled without complaints then. The question is: why isn't the variable PIC defined? Should it be defined automatically by the compiler whenever -fPIC is included, or does it need to be defined in a header or makefile or something? -- Furrfu! r a k k o at c h a r t e r dot n e t -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe directfb-users" as subject.
