On PowerPC systems, using SDL2 in a C++ codebase would FTBFS. --- SDL2-2.0.8/include/SDL_cpuinfo.h.old 2018-03-01 16:34:41.000000000 +0000 +++ SDL2-2.0.8/include/SDL_cpuinfo.h 2018-08-07 02:25:05.720000000 +0000 @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ #ifdef __ALTIVEC__ #if HAVE_ALTIVEC_H && !defined(__APPLE_ALTIVEC__) && !defined(SDL_DISABLE_ALTIVEC_H) #include <altivec.h> +#ifdef __cplusplus +#undef vector +#endif #undef pixel #undef bool #endif