Re: Potential spiped 1.4.0 release -- please test

[James Turner <james@calminferno.net>]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 10:03:12PM -0400, James Turner wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 01:03:12AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I've attached a tarball for what might be spiped 1.4.0 -- depending on whether
> > anyone reports any problems with it.  There are significant changes in the
> > build code, so please test -- even if all you have time to do is confirm that
> > it builds, that's better than nothing.
> > 
> > In particular I'd like to see this tested on as many different compilers as
> > possible and on different (non-x86) platforms, since this new version contains
> > code for detecting and using AESNI instructions -- the build code *should*
> > disable this on non-x86 platforms, but I'd like some confirmation.
> > 
> 
> Compiles cleany on OpenBSD -current amd64 (what will be 5.6). With the
> default system gcc 4.2.1 the CPUID and AESNI compiler features are not
> supported.
> 
> When compiled with gcc 4.8.2 from ports, both are supported and here is
> the resulting cpusupport-config.h:
> 
> #define CPUSUPPORT_X86_CPUID
> #define CPUSUPPORT_X86_AESNI
> #ifdef cpusupport_dummy
> export CFLAGS_X86_AESNI="-maes"
> #endif
> 
> Hopes this helps
> 

Oh and besides needing the patch Dmitry pointed out when testing this
from the OpenBSD ports infrastructure I needed the following patch for
make install.

-- 
James Turner

--- Makefile.orig	Sat Aug 23 22:59:43 2014
+++ Makefile	Sat Aug 23 22:59:55 2014
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ all:
 	done
 
 install: all
-	export BINDIR=$${BINDIR:-${BINDIR_DEFAULT}}	\
+	export BINDIR=$${BINDIR:-${BINDIR_DEFAULT}};	\
 	for D in ${PROGS}; do				\
 		( cd $${D} && make install ) || exit 2;	\
 	done