From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9688 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2005 16:59:05 -0000 Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9538 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2005 16:59:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Mar 2005 16:59:02 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DDmin-0007tA-EI; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:59:13 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nick Clifton Cc: Buday Gergely , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: .machine "altivec" Message-ID: <20050322165913.GA30274@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Clifton , Buday Gergely , binutils@sources.redhat.com References: <42405179.3020007@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42405179.3020007@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00666.txt.bz2 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. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC