[MPlayer-users] problem with configure script

[Steven M. Schultz]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, D Richard Felker III wrote:

> > 	The _altivec variable is clobbered (forced to 'no') during the
> > 	check for <altivec.h>.   This causes G4 based systems which do
> > 	have Altivec instructions (but lack altivec.h - OS/X systems for
> > 	example) to not use them

> It probably is broken, but I'll leave fixing that to someone who's

	It is indeed broken.   On a OS/X system ("Darwin") the _altivec
	getting set to 'no' causes the optimized code to be ignored.

> capable of testing it... If you'd like you can make a patch and submit
> it to -dev-eng with [PATCH] in the subject and one of the developers

	I tried that earlier - didn't hear anything.   That's ok though
	since I like the current patch (just submitted) better anyhow ;)

	Cheers,
	Steven Schultz