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Re: .machine "altivec"
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.