Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] mplayer 'illegal instruction'
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:00:59
Message-Id: 200906051400.50849.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] mplayer 'illegal instruction' by Raffaele BELARDI
1 On Freitag 05 Juni 2009, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
2 > I use the binpkg feature to quickly update an Athlon64 system with
3 > packages compiled on an Athlon64 X2 system. march=athlon64 on both
4 > systems, I avoided using the new gcc 4.3.2 march=native option to
5 > maintain compatibility. The Athlon64 apparently runs fine, but yesterday
6 > I discovered that mplayer aborts with 'illegal instruction', spitting
7 > out a warning that possibly the package was compiled for a different
8 > machine, which is true!
9 >
10 > Anybody has ideas why it is happening? On last update I switched from
11 > gcc-4.2.1 to gcc-4.3.2, but since the system seemed stable and running
12 > fine till now I did not do the recommended emerge -e world. Maybe some
13 > mplayer dependency is still referencing the old gcc libraries?
14 >
15 > raffaele
16
17 no, that has nothing to do with old gcc and everything with mplayer using
18 instructions the athlon64 does not have. Like SSE3