On 2014/09/14 08:02, Landry Breuil wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 09:49:11AM -0400, Brad Smith wrote: > > On 12/09/14 1:14 PM, Landry Breuil wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:07:22PM -0400, Brad Smith wrote: > > >>Here is an update to a newer FFmpeg snapshot from 20140912. Mainly > > >>to fix bugs with HEVC and VP9 decoding (among the other bug fixes > > >>coming in). > > > > > >Here's what we have on the mirrors now for ffmpeg: > > > > Can you clarify what the point of mentioning this was? > > Yes i can. Usually, when one stumbles upon code that needs newer compilers, > it's "oh i'll just switch it to use clang/gcc from ports" without ever > testing/caring/thinking about architectures that dont have it. And then > dozens of ports get knocked down. Remember the first time you tried to > switch from mysql to mariadb, where the latter only built on 2 or 3 > archs ? >
In this case it's the assembler not the compiler, and only really affects arches where opcodes have been added since the version of binutils we're using (the main arches affected by this sort of thing are amd64/i386/arm).
