[mythtv-users] gentoo cvs - postProcess_MMX error

[Jeff Simpson]

Removing -fPIC seems to have done it. Thanks!


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:14:50 -0500 (EST), Daniel Thor Kristjansson
<danielk at mrl.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Jeff Simpson wrote:
> 
> ]I just realized what my problem was with emerging the cvs ebuilds for
> ]myth - I had old header files installed in both /usr/include and
> ]/usr/local/include. I deleted both of them and I'm trying to emerge
> ]the cvs build again, but I have a while new problem:
> ]
> ]In file included from libpostproc/postprocess.c:645:
> ]libpostproc/postprocess_template.c: In function `postProcess_MMX':
> ]libpostproc/postprocess_template.c:3198: error: can't find a register
> ]in class `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm'
> ]
> ]any ideas? Thanks!
> 
> Try compiling libpostproc/postprocess.c with different flags,
> go to the libs/libavcodec directory, copy the compile line that fails
> and change the flags. Suggestions include, change -O3, to -Os, -O2, -O1,
> etc, try adding -fomit-frame-pointer, and if neither of those work
> try removing the -fPIC flag. Please report the problem to the ebuild
> maintainer as well.
> 
> This happens because gcc has changed their register allocation code, and
> in some cases the new code fails where the old register allocation code
> worked. I don't think this problem effects a straight 0.17 compile so
> maybe the ebuild is futzing with the flags?
> 
> -- Daniel
> 


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