On Tue, 2025-09-16 at 17:17 +0700, Jeroen Diederen wrote: > My apologies, I did the diff the wrong way. This is the correct one. > > diff -Nru vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules > --- vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules 2025-08-23 20:15:15.000000000 +0700 > +++ vlc-3.0.21/debian/rules 2025-09-15 21:50:45.000000000 +0700 > @@ -250,13 +250,10 @@ > removeplugins += neon > endif > > -# PowerPC specific optimizations (excluding powerpcspe) > -ifeq (,$(filter-out powerpc,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH_CPU))$(filter > powerpcspe,$(DEB_HOST_ARCH))) > -confflags += --enable-altivec > -else > +# PowerPC build fo e5500 with altivec disabled > confflags += --disable-altivec > removeplugins += altivec > -endif > +
Passing --disable-altivec unconditionally would also disable it on ppc64el which is a NAK. I also think we should start a survey to find out whether there is actually a significant number of users with PowerPC machines not capable of AltiVec as disabling it causes a significant performance hit for targets which support it. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
