On Tuesday 29 April 2008 06:39:05 Debian BTS wrote: > Please consider having make-googleearth-package not build (unless > --force'd, ofcourse) newer (4.3 and up) googleearth packages on CPUs > without SSE2 support, since the resulting binaries are useless (they > will crash with SIGILL on startup) and cannot be redistributed anyway.
This is a good suggestion, although I was *hoping* that Google would revert this annoying behavior in a future build of 4.3. But if not, I can add a check for sse2 in /proc/cpuinfo or something like that. > [misc rant on] > Way to go, Google! With 4.3, you managed to kill support for ~ 70% of > the Linux desktops out there. You know, there's things called 'plugins' > and 'switchable CPU profiles' out there, you know. Have a look at MPlayer > and many other multimedia apps and libs for example. > [misc rant off] Yeah, I just discovered this the other day trying to update my wife's system after saying how the new 4.3 had some cool new features. I spent 30 minutes debugging before I had to revert to 4.2 =( -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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