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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Henk Schurink <mail228673@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Asm errors when cross-compiling to arm-eabi
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* Henk Schurink:

> I keep encountering an error when trying to cross-compile libffi for
> ARM-eabi:
>
> $ git clone https://github.com/libffi/libffi && cd libffi
> $ ./configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=arm-eabi --prefix=/data/build
> --enable-static
> $ make
> ...
> ../src/arm/sysv.S: Assembler messages:
> ../src/arm/sysv.S:111: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.syntax'
> ../src/arm/sysv.S:151: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.arm'
> ../src/arm/sysv.S:151: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized
> character is `@'
> ../src/arm/sysv.S:152: Error: no such instruction: `stmfd sp!,{r0-r3,fp,lr}'
> ../src/arm/sysv.S:153: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized
> character is `@'
> ...
> ../src/arm/sysv.S:440: Error: no such instruction: `ldr pc,[pc]'
> Makefile:1335: recipe for target 'src/arm/sysv.lo' failed

This suggests that the native assembler is running, not the
cross-assembler.  Unfortunately, you did not include the output line
with the invocation of the assembler.