[mythtv] MythTV will not compile on AMD64

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Fri Jan 9 02:25:58 EST 2004


On Friday 09 January 2004 01:18 am, Jeff Blair wrote:
> I just got an AMD Opteron CPU.  When I tryed to compile MythTV I get the
> following error:

> NuppelVideoPlayer.cpp:3245: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at
>    recog.c:2175
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.
> Preprocessed source stored into
> /var/tmp/portage/mythtv-0.13/temp/ccq4AwtE.out f ile, please attach this to
> your bugreport

> I put in a bug report at Gentoo's site, and they replyed that at least
> one source code file that dose not take into account anything other then
> x86 CPU's.  The file they gave me is filter_linearblend.c
> Is there any way there could be a fix for this in later releases.  Thanks a
> lot.

Err, the opteron _is_ an x86 cpu.  What you're reporting is a compiler bug, 
regardless of if other files in the distribution compile in 64-bit mode or 
not.  Just add a -m32 to the cflags to compile in 32-bit mode, and everything 
(besides the compiler bug) should be happy.

Isaac


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