After reading the reply from the HHVM maintainers on Debian jessie package doesn't work on Debian stretch, I decided to solve the problem myself.
TL;DR: Give me the package
Sure, download the precompiled package (for x64 only).
I want to compile it myself
1. Compile libvpx1 from source
This turned out to be pretty easy. I downloaded the libvpx1 source
package for Jessie from
Debian and compiled it. The first time I ran into an error because the libvpx1
source code uses a typedef already defined in stddef.h. A quick patch and
recompile and the package was ready to be installed.
The patch involves renaming the typedef on line 33 in the files
nestegg/halloc/src/align.h and nestegg/halloc/src/halloc.c. By a freakish
accident, it's the same line number.
$ dpkg-source -x libvpx_1.3.0-3.dsc
$ cd libvpx-1.3.0
$ debuild -us -uc -b
2. Install the newly created libvpx1 package
$ sudo dpkg -i libvpx1_1.3.0-3_amd64.deb
3. Install hhvm (or any other package requiring libvpx1)
$ sudo apt-get install hhvm
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