Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-03 Thread Noah Wolfe
Adrian, Really? I thought that since the PowerPC 970 is built on POWER4, that would be the baseline. I'm confused. N On Mar 3, 2019 6:18 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > Hi Michael! > > Thanks for investigating this. > > On 3/3/19 11:18 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > > I see in the x265 b

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 3/3/19 9:12 PM, Noah Wolfe wrote: > Really? I thought that since the PowerPC 970 is built on POWER4, that would > be the baseline. It's alright, I confused POWER4 and POWER5. There are just too many POWERs. Either way, Michael found the problem and the x265 maintainer already made some changes

Bug#923650: x265: Please don't build with -DX265_ARCH_POWER8=1 on ppc64

2019-03-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Source: x265 Version: 2.9-4 Severity: normal User: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org Usertags: ppc64 Hello! x265 currently builds with POWER8 support enabled on ppc64 [1] which means that X265_ARCH_POWER8 is defined during build: cd /<>/x265-10bit/common && /usr/bin/c++ -DEXPORT_C_API=0 -DHAVE_A

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Michael! Thanks for investigating this. On 3/3/19 11:18 AM, Michael Cree wrote: > I see in the x265 build-log on the compilation invocataions the > definition "-DX265_ARCH_POWER8=1". Maybe that's the problem? The > buildd is a Power8 (or even a Power9) machine, no? Looks like x265 > is bein

Re: PPC64 Illegal Instruction

2019-03-03 Thread Michael Cree
On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 10:48:34PM +, Noah Wolfe wrote: > I just wanted to alert you that VLC, Audacity, Audacious, and > many other applications, do not start when launched from a > graphical menu, and immediately give out "Illegal instruction" > when launched via Terminal in PPC64, Confirme