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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package version requiring sse
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:01:28
Message-Id: 1124889827.7187.7.camel@lycan.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Package version requiring sse by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 14:53 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
2 > On Saturday 06 August 2005 20:18, Jeff Walter wrote:
3 > > Yuri Vasilevski wrote:
4 > > > Hi,
5 > > >
6 > > > On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 20:04:20 +0300
7 > > >
8 > > > Ivan Yosifov <ivan@×××××××.net> wrote:
9 > > >>I am not sure if it is better, but you can
10 > > >>cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | grep sse
11 > > >>and die if not found.
12 > > >
13 > > > This will make packages dependant on the build system,
14 > > > which will create inconsistencies in binary gentoo packages.
15 > > >
16 > > > Yuri.
17 > >
18 > > This is true, and there's no good way around the issue. I had written
19 > > a small script to actually search for the flag (grep'ing for sse will
20 > > go true for sse2 as well), we I noticed this.
21 > >
22 > > Will valgrind 3.0.0 ever work on systems without sse? If not, the USE
23 > > flag might be your best bet.
24 >
25 > Put a check on /proc/cpuinfo in pkg_preinst. This should get executed on
26 > the final machine, so not when building binary packages.
27 >
28
29 Same thing (and probably better option) if you put it in pkg_setup() ...
30
31
32 --
33 Martin Schlemmer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Package version requiring sse Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>