wireshark 2.2.x build fail

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 10/15/16 21:06, Michael Butler wrote:
> Just a "heads up": wireshark 2.2.x introduces the compiler flag
> "-msse4.2" via 'configure' if the compiler accepts that flag.
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> The capability, or otherwise, of the host machine is ignored as it is
> expected that the one module in which GCC will use these instructions
> has a run-time check.
>
> This does not work for CLANG on "deficient" hardware; LEMON (part of the
> build tool-chain) will also be compiled with these extended instructions
> and cause exceptions on hardware that doesn't support them :-(
>
> There's a related discussion on the wireshark-bugs list referring to
> "bug 10792"

Seems like the easy fix would be to incorporate the fix for this bug, 
and then disable SSE4.2 in a CFLAGS override.  The better fix would be 
to have clang do the same as GCC so that the test build would fail on 
those platforms that don't support SSE4.2.

Joe

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