.machine "altivec"

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue Mar 22 17:29:00 GMT 2005


On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:10:17PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Buday,
> 
> >I'm using openembedded to create a powerpc executable on my x86 linux 
> >box. oe complains about
> 
> What was the configure command line that you used ?
> 
> >| checking for .machine support... no
> >| configure: error:
> >| *** A binutils version which can handle
> >| ***    .machine "altivec"
> >| *** is needed.
> 
> I could not find this error messages in the sources anywhere.  Are you 
> using a customised version of the configure scripts by any chance ?

This particular error message comes from the glibc configure script. 
Maybe it's using the wrong assembler.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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