From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15226 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2005 19:27:58 -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 15127 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2005 19:27:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO av.mvista.com) (12.44.186.158) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 22 Mar 2005 19:27:43 -0000 Received: from [10.0.4.50] (av [127.0.0.1]) by av.mvista.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA32152; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:27:26 -0800 Message-ID: <4240719E.6020204@mvista.com> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:39:00 -0000 From: Khem Raj Reply-To: kraj@mvista.com Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: Nick Clifton , Buday Gergely , binutils@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: .machine "altivec" References: <42405179.3020007@redhat.com> <20050322165913.GA30274@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20050322165913.GA30274@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00682.txt.bz2 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.