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Subject: Re: svn commit: r395729 - in head/multimedia: mencoder mplayer
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From: Thomas Zander <riggs@freebsd.org>
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On 1 September 2015 at 05:17, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> -.if ${ARCH} == "amd64" || ${ARCH} == "i386" || ${ARCH} == "ppc"
> [...]
> FreeBSD doesn't support ppc but powerpc and powerpc64. See KNOWN_ARCHES
> in /usr/src/Makefile.inc1. ARCH uses uname -p aka MACHINE_ARCH.
>
> A quick grep(1) reveals benchmarks/filebench and multimedia/mplayer
> are in minority, the rest use powerpc or powerpc64.

Hmm, that seems right ... this was introduced ages ago, maybe a
decade. I never had the chance to test this on a powerpc, and nobody
complained :-)
Thanks for catching this, I'll update asap.

Best
Riggs