[alsa-devel] powerpc64 workaround

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 20:32:35 +0100,
Breno Leitao wrote:
> 
> Hello Takashi,
> 
> Fourteen years ago you commited a patch in alsa-libs entitled "added
> workaround for ppc64." and I am curious about it.  What is this
> workaround for? Is this still needed?

It's a very old kludge, and I don't think it's needed for the recent
glibc.

> Currently it seems to be causing some issues on ppc64le (ABI v2) when
> building this package, and we are reverting it downstream in order to
> avoid FTBFS on alsa-libs: 
> 
> https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/pull/911
> 
> https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/blob/master/package/alsa-lib/0005-remove-powerpc64-workaround.patch
> 
> Anyway, do you think it is still important?

Care to submit the patch to alsa-devel ML instead of link?
Then I can merge the fix.


thanks,

Takashi