[Buildroot] [PATCH] ffmpeg: disable for mips64r2 and mips64r6

[Vicente Olivert Riera]

Hello Thomas,

On 26/05/16 15:48, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu, 26 May 2016 07:26:26 +0200, Bernd Kuhls wrote:
> 
>>> +	# MIPS architecture detection is not accurate for 64-bit
>>> +	# variants. This has been already fixed upstream, so please
>>> +	# remove it in the next version bump.
>>> +	depends on !BR2_mips_64r2 && !BR2_mips_64r6  
>>
>> you need to propagate this exception as reverse dependency to the following packages:
>>
>> - gst1-libav
>> - kodi
>> - minidlna
>> - mpd
>> - mpv
>> - opencv
>> - opencv3
>> - squeezelite
>> - tovid
>>
>> Imho this is too much work, we should live with the build error and
>> bump ffmpeg to 3.0.2 after the next buildroot release to fix the
>> problem. On github you can test my patch series already:
> 
> ffmpeg already has an architecture exception for nios2. So we could
> also replace that with a BR2_PACKAGE_FFMPEG_ARCH_SUPPORTS option, and
> therefore easily add the exception for mips64r2/r6.

Done and marked this patch as superseded.

Regards,

Vincent.

> We're down to very few build failures per day, so I would really like
> to get this issue out of the way, and see what other failures we have.
> ffmpeg on mips64r2/r6 is now the #1 failure.
> 
> Thomas
>