Re: multimedia/libvpx build failure with gcc 4.9.2 on Solaris 10 sparc

[Ibraheem Saleh <shadowhawk100%gmail.com@localhost>]

Commenting out those includes has allowed me to build and install it...

Hopefully whatever those includes were aimed at fixing doesn't bite me
down the line.

Thanks for your help!

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Tobias Nygren <tnn%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2015 16:25:43 -0700
> Ibraheem Saleh <shadowhawk100%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to build libvpx with external gcc 4.9.2 on Solaris 10 sparc
>> and it's halting with the following error:
>
>> Toolchain is unable to link executables
>
>> I suspect that it might have something to do with the way that I've
>> configured gcc not explicitly specifying which as to use? Any ideas on
>> what else it might be or possible solutions?
>
> No, this is probably caused by this, from the libvpx Makefile:
>
>  PR pkg/48508: newer gas from binutils is required to compile ssse3 code.
> .if !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MNetBSD-5.*) || \
>         !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MSunOS-5.10*) || \
>         !empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MOpenBSD-5*)
> .include "../../devel/binutils/buildlink3.mk"
> .include "../../devel/binutils/override-as.mk"
> .endif
>
> That is wrong, if it needs to depend on newer binutils for SSE3 it should
> only do so on x86 architecture.