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+ <B>Pascal Terjan</B>
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+<PRE>On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:10 PM, AL13N &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">alien at rmail.be</A>&gt; wrote:
+&gt;&gt;<i> 'Twas brillig, and zezinho at 03/12/12 22:42 did gyre and gimble:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Trying to launch openalchemist gave me a crash because Clanlib2 uses
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> SSE2 on SSE2 systems for software rendering, while we disabled it at
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> configure.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> What should we do? I think enabling it is better, as all i586 CPU with
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> less than 10 years come with SSE2. But our policy forbids it ;-)
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> ERROR FOLLOWS :
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Exception caught:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Sorry, this compiled clanSWRender does not support SSE2, but your CPU
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> does support SSE2. (Update clanSWRender to contain SSE2)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> The code should really be complied but only enabled at runtime if it's
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> available. PulseAudio does this. It's more of a pain to code for but
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> does make like easier for distributions.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> But yeah, short term fix, nuke the test, and as a meme says, keep calm
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> and carry on.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> but, do ALL recent i586 CPU's have SSE2? what about the embedded and VIA
+</I>&gt;<i> cpu's and the likes?
+</I>
+The test is that it refuses to run if the lib is not using sse2 while
+it could (slowly).
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+The clanSWRender lib needs to be fixed to have sse2 support on sse2
+system and not on non sse2 systems so that we can enable it but that's
+something unrelated to dropping this test.
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