Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Roman Gaufman <hackeron@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] SSE2 and MMX2 use flags.
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 16:50:09
Message-Id: 200407251806.54341.hackeron@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] SSE2 and MMX2 use flags. by Marius Mauch
1 Not particularly mplayer, as the only reason they won't fix it is because of a
2 lack of see2 and mmx2 use flags in portage. But yes, I should've emailed
3 gentoo-dev, not gentoo-portage-dev.
4
5 On Sunday 25 July 2004 16:16, Marius Mauch wrote:
6 > On 07/25/04 Roman Gaufman wrote:
7 > > Hey,
8 > >
9 > > From my experience, on older and compact laptops, to install gentoo,
10 > > many compile gentoo on their PC, and then copy over installation to
11 > > laptop hard drive (using a 2.5" to 3.5" converter or over network).
12 > > There is a problem however.
13 > >
14 > > Even if selecting to compile for the laptop in question, things like
15 > > sse2 and mmx2 are auto detected, atleast in mplayer. That makes
16 > > mplayer crash on startup when copied to laptop.
17 > >
18 > > What I recommend is to add an sse2/mmx2 use flags and if no use flag
19 > > for mmx/sse/mmx2/sse2 is set, then auto detect, otherwise either force
20 > > it, or force against it.
21 > >
22 > > Your thoughts?
23 >
24 > That's a ebuild problem for mplayer, not a portage problem.
25 >
26 > Marius
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