[x264-devel] [PATCH] Fix build on Solaris 10 SPARC

[Sean McGovern]

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Sean McGovern <gseanmcg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Sean McGovern <gseanmcg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Submitted for approval, here is a patch that fixes build of x264 on SPARC
>> Solaris 10.
>>
>> Some notes about the patch:
>>
>>    1. As before, this still assumes you have the GNU compiler & toolchain
>>    (except Sun's assembler), I have successfully built gcc 4.5.1 myself for
>>    SPARC and have been using that. I have not made any attempt to build with
>>    Sun Studio, although I do have it installed.
>>    2. On Solaris, neither /usr/xpg4/bin/grep nor /usr/bin/grep are
>>    capable of handling binary files directly, so I have instead piped the
>>    conftest.o through /usr/bin/strings, which also works on many other *ix
>>    platforms including Linux and MacOS X.
>>    3. SPARC is an acronym (http://www.sparc.org/standards/SPARCV9.pdf ,
>>    section 0.1) -- all references have been changed to uppercase (there weren't
>>    many).
>>    4. sun4v's are 64-bit capable as well, so catch this in the configure
>>    script.
>>
>> Additionally, although it's largely harmless, builders may want to add the
>> LARGEFILE arguments to CFLAGS to squelch a warning. My build script
>> (bash-syntax) does it thus:
>>
>> LFS_CFLAGS=$(getconf LFS_CFLAGS)
>> CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} ${LFS_CFLAGS}"
>>
>> I would be more than happy to share my build script if anyone wants a
>> copy.
>>
>> -- Sean McG
>>
>
> It helps a bunch when the patch is um... actually attached. Yeah.
>
> -- Sean McG
>

Ping?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/x264-devel/attachments/20101119/e951a4f7/attachment-0001.html>