Bug 105807 – dev-libs/liboil keywording request

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-09-13 07:52:02 UTC]

Please test liboil compiles etc. on your arches as gst-plugins 0.8.11 deps on it
and so does the next gen gstreamer (0.9.x) which I want to put in portage.

[Comment 1 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2005-09-13 08:52:35 UTC]

libol is already stable on ppc64. please readd if I missed something. 

[Comment 2 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-09-14 02:51:13 UTC]

Its dev-libs/liboil not libol and is not marked stable or ~ on ppc64.

[Comment 3 Markus Rothe (RETIRED) 2005-09-18 00:13:48 UTC]

added ~ppc64 

[Comment 4 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2005-10-02 05:17:04 UTC]

ia64 done

[Comment 5 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) 2005-10-06 14:35:19 UTC]

Seems to work here. Marked ~alpha

Cheers,
Ferdy

[Comment 6 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 05:52:14 UTC]

arm, hppa, mips ping!

[Comment 7 Stephen Becker (RETIRED) 2005-11-27 06:25:03 UTC]

Please provide a test case for this lib.  We don't do "it compiles, ship it!"
keywording on mips.

[Comment 8 Zaheer Abbas Merali (RETIRED) 2005-12-04 06:21:33 UTC]

try:

gst-launch-0.8 videotestsrc ! ximagesink

That (assuming you are using 0.8.11 of gstreamer and gst-plugins) uses liboil.

[Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2006-01-21 13:13:25 UTC]

dev-libs/liboil-0.3.6 marked ~hppa, and took the liberty to change the RDEPEND of media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 to allow gst-plugins to build against liboil on hppa.

[Comment 10 Thomas Polliard 2006-12-01 21:54:05 UTC]

I have CHOST="athlon64" and libol fails to build complaining that it doesnt know about Athlon64. It is masked as stable so not sure why  this is going on (may have misread or something).  I have also tested with -march=athlon64 in CFLAGS with CHOST commented out.

[Comment 11 Stephen Becker (RETIRED) 2006-12-02 05:40:13 UTC]

(In reply to comment #10)
> I have CHOST="athlon64" and libol fails to build complaining that it doesnt
> know about Athlon64. It is masked as stable so not sure why  this is going on
> (may have misread or something).  I have also tested with -march=athlon64 in
> CFLAGS with CHOST commented out.
> 

That is because you are using a dumb CHOST.  Seriously, you should never change that.  Ever.  You should go back to CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" unless you want to be slapped down on any bug you file and/or comment.  And besides that, this is a stabilization request bug for "liboil", not "libol".  Even if it was a "libol" stabilization bug, it wouldn't be the place to report a separate bug.  You are in the wroooooooong place, aside from the fact that your "problem" is just PEBKAC.

[Comment 12 Christian Faulhammer (RETIRED) 2007-01-29 12:43:12 UTC]

arm keyworded

[Comment 13 Joshua Kinard 2007-07-01 17:12:34 UTC]

We removed mips support for gstreamer long ago.  There were specific problems that I can't recall (I think this is a gnome-related package, yes?; gnome has problems on mips in its more core packages (gdm works fine for now)).  Thus, I didn't see a need in trying to maintain it.  Any reason, therefore, to keep this bug open?

[Comment 14 Stuart Longland (RETIRED) 2007-07-08 04:24:11 UTC]

liboil runs, but performance is damn awful on MIPS.

I actually installed it whilst checking out PulseAudio on my Octane.  The same package that worked fine on a 166MHz Pentium MMX, stuttered its way through a song on a 175MHz R10000 Octane.

I'm not sure exactly what uses liboil... but I can pretty much guarantee it is useless for multimedia stuff until someone puts in some patches to optimise operations on MIPS.

Unless there's a really compelling reason why we should keyword it as-is... I think we'll leave things as they are for now. :-)

[Comment 15 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-11-22 22:29:43 UTC]

Closing wrt Comment #14