On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 at 01:01, Ionen Wolkens <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2025 at 10:31:06PM +0100, netfab wrote: > > Le 25/12/25 à 22:20, Jorge Almeida a tapoté : > > > Why is portage refusing to compile imlib2 with mmx support? > > > > Because mmx is masked in profiles for this package. > > > > From profiles/arch/amd64/package.use.mask : > > > > > > # Jeremy Olexa <[email protected]> (2009-02-07) > > > # USE=mmx on imlib2 causes issues with other apps. > > > # See bug 218382 (comments # 11-12) > > Being so old it does make me wonder if that bug is still valid, albeit > mmx is not very interesting either way nowadays (very ancient) and > sounds(?) that it is not used in the amd64 code paths anyway. So > enabling would likely do nothing for you. > -- > > I was making a program where speed is essential and I was told (by AI) to make sure imlib2 had support for mmx etc. But it turns out that the thing works with imlib2 as we have it in gentoo, so no problem. Jorge Almeida
