ppc buildserver problem

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:39 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> In any case, this is an interesting topic, since the build machines,
> while blazingly fast, don't support Altivec, which most Fedora PPC users
> have.  I'm not sure how to even differentiate between those jobs needing
> Altivec (so they might go to a capable machine) and those jobs not
> requiring it (so they could go to the POWER5).

Altivec shouldn't be needed on the system to compile things for it.  You
should do run-time handling of Altivec just like you have to do for MMX
or SSE, etc

Jeremy