[XviD-devel] [Future PATCH] I need testers for unified Makefile

Christoph Lampert xvid-devel@xvid.org
Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:42:38 +0100 (CET)


On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Edouard Gomez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the unified makefile + configure seems to work fine on that:
>  - Debian GNU/Linux x86, sparc64
>  - Red Hat 7.3 x86
>  - Solaris8 sparc32
>  - FreeBSD 4.7 x86
>  - BeOS R5 (gcc internal compiler error, but the makefile is fine)
>  - Debian GNU/Linux alphaev64
> 
> the unified makefile fails on that platforms:
>  - MacOSX 10.1 Server Edition
> 
> the unified makefile has not been tested on:
>  - Win32 + cygwin
> 
> The binaries seem to work fine on all 32bit platforms, however the alpha
> target (the only one which is 64bit andis supported by gcc in 64bit
> mode) did crash when using the examples, the bitstream functions were
> reading out of bounds.
> 
> So i need testers for 3 things:
>  - Does the makefile works fine on Win32+cygwin ?
>  - Does the ia64 version still works (because i fear 64bit targets are
>    broken) and if someone has access to another alpha station, could he
>    have a look at the source to find out why it segfaults ?
>  - Test as much as possible all unix targets i had no access to:
>    irix+mips, netbsd+all flavors of cpu

So, where is the makefile? 
Florin gave me access to  Irix64. Currently, it encoding 
doesn't work with Makefile.irix64, but that doesn't mean a 
thing, I guess it's again unaligned access in bitstream.c or so.

gruel