[x264-devel] Re: PPC64 support in configure

[Loren Merritt]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Markus Rothe wrote:

> There are also many ppc(32) machines that do not support altivec (G3 for
> example), so you should think about removing the lines which enable altivec
> on ppc and let the user decide if he or she wants to add this CFLAGS
> using --extra-cflags or not.

Why would they care? It's not an error to compile in altivec support on a 
cpu that can't run it (detection also happens at runtime). Just like we 
compile in SSE2 for all x86 variants, while not all of them use it.

--Loren Merritt

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