[csw-maintainers] Buildfarm setup - documentation

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> Hi folks,
>
> Am 03.10.2013 um 15:21 schrieb Laurent Blume <laurent at opencsw.org>:
>> On 03/10/13 14:51, Peter FELECAN wrote:
>>> This is not an emulation but real "metal". No so old either, well not in
>>> real historical time ... 10 years. BTW, it supports SSE, see
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Athlon_XP_3200%2B#Athlon_XP_.22Barton.22_.28Model_10.2C_130_nm.29
>>> , consequently I don't get what the message conveys.
>>> 
>> 
>> It supports SSE, but it is really obsolete and does not support SSe2, and that library needs it:
>> $ file /opt/csw/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
>> /opt/csw/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0:        ELF 32-bit LSB dynamic lib 80386 Version 1 [SSE2 SSE MMX CMOV FPU], dynamically linked, stripped
>> 
>> I think that's probably a mistake, since so far, I've seen even SSE avoided for the 32 bit binaries.
>
>
> Or if necessary we could build more hwcap versions:
>   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/hwcap-modification-139536.html
> The needed aux-linkage has already been done for full-features versions of
> neon and curl.

Thank you for my enlightenment folks. I hope that this will be corrected
either by not requiring SSE2 or by hwcap. For the moment I'm not
investing in bare metal just for the sake of build-farm documentation
verification.
-- 
Peter