[Ardour-Dev] weird asm error on core2 in FPU_OPTIMIZATION code (2.0-ongoing)

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

Paul Davis wrote:
> 2009/6/20 Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings at stackingdwarves.net>:
>> it's the first time i've attempted to build on a core2 duo (the base
>> distro is 32bits here). maybe the problem is that ardour thinks we're
>> 64bit and the assembler thinks we're 32?
> 
> correct. ardour is looking at /proc/cpuinfo to determine the CPU type
> & flags. the scons argument ARCH="..." can be used to override any
> attempt at arch-specific flags used by the build.

i see. thanks for the clarification. i'll file a heads-up bug in mantis
with this explanation in it, so that people who run into this issue have
a chance to find it. maybe in the future a more robust way to determine
bit width can be found - or maybe 32/64 bit systems will just die out...

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