[Buildroot] [PATCH] liquid-dsp: fix powerpc/altivec build failures

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Nov 11 08:49:31 UTC 2015


Dear Gustavo Zacarias,

On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 11:10:05 -0300, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> When a powerpc target is detected the build system tries to force
> altivec support but that's wrong:
> 
> Not every powerpc processor has altivec instruction support.
> 
> It's using the removed/deprecated -faltivec compiler directive when it
> should be using -maltivec instead.
> 
> Even if the above conditions are corrected the altivec codepath fails
> to build properly.
> 
> So just disable altivec in general using the standard
> --enable-simdoverride configure option. Fixes:
> 
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/e1b/e1b6cf76a7a4ae754a928d211e779e9381198f48/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar>

Thanks for fixing this! Could you also report the problem to the
upstream project?

Thanks!

Thomas
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