On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 04:11, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 16:45, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:19:14PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 12:32:34PM -0500, Lukas Geyer wrote: > > > > the problem with fftw3 on powerpc is that the current debian/rules > > > > assumes that all powerpc CPUs know Altivec instructions. That is > > > > plainly untrue (Altivec is only available in the most recent CPUs) and > > > > leads to an illegal instruction error here. The buildd fails with sig > > > > 11, but I suspect the reason is the same. > > No, as the signal 11 happens on Altivec machines. Which version do you > get an illegal instruction with doing what, under what circumstances? (I > suspect this should be another bug though)
Note that it seems gcc-3.3 still has a very significant amount of bugs related to altivec codegen... 3.4 is supposed to be much better, though not completely bug free yet Ben.
