On Thursday, September 15, 2011, Sean McGovern <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday, September 15, 2011, Måns Rullgård <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sean McGovern <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, September 14, 2011, Måns Rullgård <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Sean McGovern <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:42:09AM -0400, Sean McGovern wrote:
>>>>>>> The Solaris linker will correctly mark an executable with each
>>>>>>> instruction set it encounters when building an
>>>>>>> executable. However, our libraries have their own functionality
>>>>>>> and guards for processor-specific code.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, instead suppress creation of the hardware capabilities ELF
section.
>>>>>>> --- a/configure
>>>>>>> +++ b/configure
>>>>>>> @@ -2369,6 +2369,7 @@ case $target_os in
>>>>>>>          enabled x86 && SHFLAGS="-mimpure-text $SHFLAGS"
>>>>>>>          network_extralibs="-lsocket -lnsl"
>>>>>>>          add_cppflags -D__EXTENSIONS__
>>>>>>> +        echo "hwcap_1 = OVERRIDE;" > mapfile && add_ldflags
-Wl,-M,mapfile
>>>>>>>          nm_opts='-P -g'
>>>>>>>          ;;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems to me this is specific to the Sun Studio compiler/linker.
>>>>>> We have a section for that compiler in configure.  Moving this
>>>>>> block there would contain the hack to the only place where it is
>>>>>> really needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> You are correct that this is really a Sun Studio requirement. However,
>>>>> configure does not know $arch until later in the script.
>>>>
>>>> There is a late block of compiler-specific stuff too, probably for
>>>> reasons like this.
>>>
>>> So is it now reasonable to go ahead with the original patch as is?
>>
>> I don't think so.  It is needed only on solaris/x86 when using the
>> sunstudio linker.  What linker does gcc on solaris use?
>>
>> --
>> Måns Rullgård
>> [email protected]
>> _______________________________________________
>> libav-devel mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
>>
>
> Maybe I described it wrong -- both gcc and Solaris Studio use the same
linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) but different assemblers. The Sun assembler
instruments it's output such that the linker can build and embed the
instruction set list correctly. GNU gas does not do this on Solaris.
>
> -- Sean


Not to sound buzzword-compliant or anything but how should I be moving
forward on this patch. If it's not welcome then I should just drop both it
and the Solaris Studio FATE runs and stop pretending that we build with
anything that isn't gcc?

-- Sean
_______________________________________________
libav-devel mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel

Reply via email to