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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 12:30:11 +0300
From: "Adrian Bunk" <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@iki.fi>
Cc: openembedded-core <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [OE-core] Why disable NEON support in recipes if runtime detection works?
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 12:06:15PM +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>...
> I'm currently converting the pulseaudio recipe from Autotools to Meson,
> and the old Autotools build system supports disabling NEON
> optimizations but the Meson build system doesn't. So I'm wondering if I
> should add the missing feature to the Meson build system, or just let
> the runtime detection do its work.
>...

Looking at the git history it seems this was added as a workaround at a 
time when the autodetection was buggy and caused build breakage.

Debian also backported commit 0af05213 (build: make ARM NEON check in 
configure.ac more strict) to PulseAudio 4.0, which was included in
PulseAudio 5.0.

> Tanu

cu
Adrian