[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Configure fails on Intel OS X

[Nigel Pearson]

Purpose: Fix incorrect configure script exit on Intel OS X
Applies: SVN r5816
Testing: Patch has been in place in MythTV for 4 months
          http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/9452
Authors: Mino Taoyama, Nigel Pearson


Discussion: OS X has no memalign(). The malloc() man page says:
DESCRIPTION
      The malloc(), calloc(), valloc(), and realloc() functions allocate 
mem-
      ory.  The allocated memory is aligned such that it can be used for 
any
      data type, including AltiVec-related types.

The patch simply skips the MMX/SSE and memalign() check
when running on OS X/Darwin. An alternative would be to
set memalignhack on this OS, but I think that generates
some extra, un-needed, code.

% svn diff configure | tee patch.osxintel-1.diff
Index: configure
===================================================================
--- configure   (revision 5816)
+++ configure   (working copy)
@@ -1915,7 +1915,8 @@
      check_func memalign || _memalign="no"
  fi

-if test "$_memalign" = "no" -a "$mmx" = "yes" -a "$memalignhack" != 
"yes"; then
+if test "$_memalign" = "no" -a "$mmx" = "yes" -a \
+        "$memalignhack" != "yes" -a "$darwin" != "yes" ; then
      die "Error, no memalign() but SSE enabled, disable it or use 
--enable-memalign-hack."
  fi

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