Ok, blas-atlas checks for Altivec and requires >= gcc-3.3 to compile altivec code. Sadly it checks it like that: if (major >= 3 && minor >= 3) Which is good, but not until Gnu decides to ship >=gcc-4.3.* Therefore i've changed it to read: if ((major >= 3 && minor >= 3)||(major >= 4)) Maybe that should be added to 3.7.11-allow-any-gcc-version.patch (as it already deals with gcc-issues)?
Compiles with no problem using gcc-4.1.0 on ppc 'interactive=1 emerge blas-atlas' Allows you to ignore the version check during configuration with a series of y/n questions.
Hi Matti, Thanks for pointing this out. I've updated the 3.7.11-allow-any-gcc-version.patch to remove the compiler check for altivec completely since it is not really needed considering the gcc versions available in portage. Thanks, Markus
