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Re: .machine "altivec"

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: Buday Gergely <gergoe at math dot bme dot hu>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:59:13 -0500
Subject: Re: .machine "altivec"
References: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0503221250180.1517@csusza.math.bme.hu> <42405179.3020007@redhat.com>

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

Follow-Ups:
- Re: .machine "altivec"
  - From: Buday Gergely
- Re: .machine "altivec"
  - From: Khem Raj
- Re: .machine "altivec"
  - From: Khem Raj

References:
- .machine "altivec"
  - From: Buday Gergely
- Re: .machine "altivec"
  - From: Nick Clifton

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