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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:38:01 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120427103801.6bdedb92@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120426231904.15dea6d2@gentoo.org>

On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:19:04 -0600
Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:06:45 -0300
> Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:15:34 -0400
> > Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Christian Ruppert
> > > <idl0r@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > > I haven't followed the prev. conversation but what's wrong with
> > > > a USE flag for SSE2? We already have SSE2 flags, even global..
> > > 
> > > That's not it. The flash binary uses SSE2 instructions without
> > > checking for their presence, which causes bad things on systems
> > > without SSE2. The purpose of the 'sse2check' flag was to die if
> > > the system doesn't have SSE2 and print a message telling the user
> > > to use an older version of flash.
> > > 
> > > The relevant bug is https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410547
> > > 
> > 
> > wouldnt adding a sse2 useflag and putting it in REQUIRED_USE solve
> > the problem ?
> > 
> > afaik portage wont even try to upgrade if people have -sse2
> 
> I like that, but it doesn't address building on a host not supporting
> SSE2 for a target that does.  

Why? Enable sse2 when cross-"building" and be done.

Note: There's no more check via /proc/cpuinfo that way.

A.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20120424201246.A791C2004B@flycatcher.gentoo.org>
2012-04-26  5:04 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in www-plugins/adobe-flash: metadata.xml adobe-flash-11.2.202.228.ebuild ChangeLog Ryan Hill
2012-04-26 16:00   ` Jeroen Roovers
2012-04-26 17:01     ` Christian Ruppert
2012-04-26 19:15       ` Matt Turner
2012-04-26 20:06         ` Alexis Ballier
2012-04-26 20:24           ` Matt Turner
2012-04-27  5:19           ` Ryan Hill
2012-04-27 13:38             ` Alexis Ballier [this message]
2012-05-02 15:23       ` Matt Turner
2012-05-10 17:10         ` Jim Ramsay
2012-05-10 17:53           ` Jim Ramsay
2012-04-27  5:23     ` Ryan Hill
2012-04-27  9:40       ` Maxim Kammerer

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