Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm building MPlayer 1.0rc2 > > I'm pretty sure that rc2 is so old that it doesn't actually have a > significant amount of SSSE3 code to begin with. > I didn't realize that 1.0rc2 was not a recent release. Authors usually have at least source tarballs of releases that aren't over a year old available. How am I to know if I what I get from a snapshot is even remotely usable? > > have an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The configure script seems to ignore > > the --enables-ssse3 switch (why 3 's'es?) and doesn't check for SSE3 > > support (and builds for pentium-m instead of prescott). > > Perhaps your GCC is old enough that it has -march=pentium-m but not prescott? It supports prescott (and therefore SSE3), but not core2 (SSSE3). What I was building, however does not support SSE3, meaning the highest optimization that both could support was pentium-m.
