On 2011-08-03, Donovan Watteau <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to bump this again, but I think it deserves to make the release > since the bug is important and the fix is easy (a similar one is already > used to avoid using SSE2)...
I think the patch for SSE2 is not actually doing anything useful and should be removed, SSE2 is not defined on i386 and AIUI amd64-capable CPUs support SSE2 anyway. >>> I see there this a patch in the port [1] which undef's __SSE2__ so I >>> guess the same thing should be done for __ALTIVEC__. Unfortunately, >>> it wasn't possible for me to test the patch, since it would take forever >>> to compile on such an old box. But I guess the issue is here. >>> >>> I'd gladly test any new package built with this patch on my G3, if it >>> helps. Complete tested diffs have a much better chance of getting accepted. Yes it takes a while but it will for anyone else who might look at it and you actually have the machine to test it on. It's only going to be a bit slower on your machine than the sort of macppc which most developers have access to...
