.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:
>
>
>>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.
>
>
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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