Bug#828209: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#828209: Bug#828209: libssw: FTBFS on non-SSE architectures

2016-06-27 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Hi Aaron, > My expectation ws that depending on the processor's capabilities, this > code would either succeed (on reasonably modern processors) or fail with > SIGILL (Illegal instruction). In general, i386 binaries should be able > to use modern processor features on suitable hardware; GCC just

Bug#828209: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#828209: libssw: FTBFS on non-SSE architectures

2016-06-26 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Sascha Steinbiss writes: > I can’t see why code containing SSE instructions would run on i386? My expectation ws that depending on the processor's capabilities, this code would either succeed (on reasonably modern processors) or fail with SIGILL (Illegal instruction). In general, i386 binaries

Bug#828209: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#828209: libssw: FTBFS on non-SSE architectures

2016-06-26 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Dear Aaron, thanks for your report and for caring about the non-x86 archs! > Builds for libssw failed on the vast majority architectures due to lack > of support for x86 SSE instructions. AFAICT, libssw specifically makes a > point of using these instructions, so support for non-x86 architecture

Bug#828209: libssw: FTBFS on non-SSE architectures

2016-06-25 Thread Aaron M. Ucko
Source: libssw Version: 1.0-1 Severity: important Justification: fails to build from source Builds for libssw failed on the vast majority architectures due to lack of support for x86 SSE instructions. AFAICT, libssw specifically makes a point of using these instructions, so support for non-x86 ar