The new package returns the following error on my machine:

pi@bmo:~/src $ retroarch
retroarch: symbol lookup error: retroarch: undefined symbol: vgImageSubData


On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:49 PM, peter green <email address hidden> wrote:

> I just had a chat with the retroarch guys on IRC, unfortunately it seems
> they do not have a mailling list.
>
> <plugwash> Hi guys, I am the maintainer of Raspbian, recently a bug report
> regarding retroarch in Raspbian dropped in and I could do with some advice.
> <orbea> plugwash: what is the bug report?
> <plugwash> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1734592
> <retrobot> Title: Bug #1734592 “retroarch returns “illegal instruction"" :
> Bugs : Raspbian
> <orbea> plugwash: this is 1.3.6?
> <hunterk> ah, yeah, could be related to the NEON flag
> <plugwash> orbea, yes
> <plugwash> So my questions
> <orbea> plugwash: any way you can update it and see if it still occurs?
> <orbea> 1.3.6 is kind of old :)
> <orbea> 1.6.9 just came out recently
> <orbea> i mean there is not much point in fixing something that might
> already be fixed? :)
> <hunterk> I know debian likes to use super-old packages, which is fine,
> but seeing if it's already fixed would indeed keep us from reinventintating
> the wheel
> <plugwash> So anyway my questions
> <plugwash> 1. Is there an easy way to tell the retroarch build system not
> to hide the commands it is running
> <plugwash> 2. Is retroarch supposed to support runtime detection of neon?
> <orbea> yes, but gimme me a moment to remember exactly how
> <hunterk> I don't think we do runtime NEON detection, no
> <orbea> plugwash: ./configure && make V=1
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> <orbea> pretty sure that existed even in 1.3.6
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> <plugwash> hunterk, thanks for the info, that kinda sucks from the point
> of view of raspbian since our users are split between neon and non-neon
> systems
> <orbea> plugwash: for neon you need ./configure --enable-neon
> <orbea> its set to off by default
> <orbea> i can see why that would be problematic..
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> <orbea> hacky solution would to ship RetroArch and RetroArch-neon
> <plugwash> orbea, right but it's turned on in the Debian packaging (which
> we have picked up in raspbian). That was why I was trying to find out if
> retroarch had runtime detection or if "--enable-neon" was intentionally
> incompatible with non-neon systems.
> <orbea> im not sure runtime detection would be ideal either...some distros
> ship neon regardless if its arm or not
> <orbea> see slackware
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> <plugwash> umm neon is an arm extension, neon on non-arm doesn't make
> sense as a concept.
> <orbea> it does if you ship a full install which may or may not be arm
> <orbea> package management is pretty different for debian and slackware :P
> <hunterk> so what would be a solution? raspbian uses the same package for
> all hardware?
> <orbea> split it into two packages is the easiest I can think of
> <orbea> retroarch and retroarch-neon
> <hunterk> assuming they only have a single repo
>
> I have built a retroarch package (In a raspbian stretch environment)
> without neon and would like people to test it.
>
> http://plugwash.raspbian.org/retroarchnoneon/
>
> If it works we can then think about where we go from here.
>
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> Title:
>   retroarch returns "illegal instruction"
>
> Status in Raspbian:
>   New
>
> Bug description:
>   I ran:
>   sudo apt install retroarch
>
>   which installed just fine, but upon running, it returns illegal
> instruction.
>   This is on a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
>
>   I believe this package may include arm7 code but I was allowed to get
>   it with my Zero.
>
>   Linux bmo 4.9.59+ #1047 Sun Oct 29 11:47:10 GMT 2017 armv6l GNU/Linux
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