On 2010-3-29 05:19 , t...@qx.net wrote: >>> ------- Original Message ------- >> >From : Ryan Schmidt[mailto:ryandes...@macports.org] >>> Sent : 3/28/2010 12:48:07 PM >>> To : t...@qx.net >>> Cc : macports-users@lists.macosforge.org >>> Subject : RE: Re: ffmpeg --disable-altivec option >>> > >> >> On Mar 28, 2010, at 11:11, t...@qx.net wrote: > >>> I need to install ffmpeg with the --disable-altivec option. Is that >>> possible? > >> I don't see an option for that in the portfile. Out of curiosity, why do you >> need this option? > > I have a G3 PPC. Altivec was a G4 implementation ( Velocity Engine ). > Without disabling altivec I get 'illegal instruction' failures from ffmpeg. > As a note, I have installed the same release of ffmpeg from source, with > --disable-altivec, and it works fine. I had to have help from the > ffmpeg user mailing list to discover this. I would like to get my 'stuff' > under MacPorts, but the install I did would not work because of 'illegal > instructions.' Is a patch possible? Thanks for your help! Best regards, Tom
I've changed the portfile to add --disable-altivec to the configure args when building on a PPC CPU that does not have a vector unit. - Josh _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
