Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:16:45
Message-Id: CAEdQ38HsiLOwwckmFN=jAJ26ebJRejdrx-5Ybe=__PrCWbuu_g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog by Christian Ruppert
1 On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Christian Ruppert <idl0r@g.o> wrote:
2 > I haven't followed the prev. conversation but what's wrong with a USE flag for
3 > SSE2? We already have SSE2 flags, even global..
4
5 That's not it. The flash binary uses SSE2 instructions without
6 checking for their presence, which causes bad things on systems
7 without SSE2. The purpose of the 'sse2check' flag was to die if the
8 system doesn't have SSE2 and print a message telling the user to use
9 an older version of flash.
10
11 The relevant bug is https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410547

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