Re: Bug#572420: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-10-10 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:57:35 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: Can the problem be worked around by running the affected apps with the environment variable SDL_ALTIVEC_BLIT_FEATURES=0? If yes, SDL_HasAltiVec() may just incorrectly return true on non-Altivec-capable systems. If no,

Re: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-13 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sun, 2010-04-04 at 00:14 +0100, peter green wrote: peter green wrote: The bug is actually in libsdl1.2debian. It has improper compile flags for powerpc g3. What these are I do not know. looking at the build log -maltivec seems to be the smoking gun. It appears the upstream configure

Re: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-05 Thread Gunther Furtado
Em Sun, 04 Apr 2010 11:20:40 +0100, peter green plugw...@p10link.net escreveu: Rick Thomas wrote: I own both G3's and G4's running Debian Stable. I can take them down for limited periods (a day or so) to run other versions of Debian. If someone who knows what he/she's doing can walk

Re: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
I own both G3's and G4's running Debian Stable. I can take them down for limited periods (a day or so) to run other versions of Debian. If someone who knows what he/she's doing can walk me through the steps (I'm an experienced system admin. But I'm not a developer.) I'm willing to do

Re: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-04 Thread peter green
Rick Thomas wrote: I own both G3's and G4's running Debian Stable. I can take them down for limited periods (a day or so) to run other versions of Debian. If someone who knows what he/she's doing can walk me through the steps (I'm an experienced system admin. But I'm not a developer.) I'm

Re: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-04 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks, Peter. I'm a sys-admin. That means I'm expert in different things than a developer would be. So I hope you understand when I say that this description is a bit sketchy from my point of view. (-; I understand that under debian unstable means I have to install Sid on the G3.

Re: Please change this bug to libsdl1.2debian

2010-04-03 Thread peter green
peter green wrote: The bug is actually in libsdl1.2debian. It has improper compile flags for powerpc g3. What these are I do not know. looking at the build log -maltivec seems to be the smoking gun. It appears the upstream configure script is looking for altivec support at build time and