libvpx does not build for ppc: fatal error: asm/cputable.h: No such file or directory

[barracuda156]

/opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-7  -pipe -Os -isysroot/ -arch ppc -DNDEBUG -O3 -fPIC -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wfloat-conversion -Wpointer-arith -Wtype-limits -Wcast-qual -Wvla -Wimplicit-function-declaration -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wuninitialized -Wunused -Wextra -Wundef -Wframe-larger-than=52000 -std=gnu89 -I. -I"/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_macports_release_tarballs_ports_multimedia_libvpx/libvpx/work/libvpx-1.11.0" -c -o vpx_dsp/prob.c.o vpx_dsp/prob.c
vpx_ports/ppc_cpudetect.c:14:10: fatal error: asm/cputable.h: No such file or directory
 #include <asm/cputable.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [vpx_ports/ppc_cpudetect.c.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make: *** [.DEFAULT] Error 2

[kencu (Ken)]

the last libvpx that worked on ppc was 1.4.0, some years ago.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Indeed, the libvpx portfile already contains the line:

supported_archs     x86_64 i386 arm64

It should not have been possible for you to even get this far with trying to build libvpx for ppc.