.machine "altivec"

Khem Raj kraj@mvista.com
Tue Mar 22 22:44:00 GMT 2005



Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 05:10:17PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
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>>Hi Buday,
>>
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>>>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 ?
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>>>| 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 ?
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>This particular error message comes from the glibc configure script. 
>Maybe it's using the wrong assembler.
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>
I think so too. It is trying to use the assembler on host which is x86 
asm thats why the error.



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