Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:28:51 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> To: richo <richo@psych0tik.net> Cc: freebsd-ppc <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: binutils + ppc64 Message-ID: <4E9DFDA3.901@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20111018222102.GA6722@richh-imac.office.boxdice.com.au> References: <20111018222102.GA6722@richh-imac.office.boxdice.com.au>
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It's known to be broken. I don't know if a fix is in progress -- Andreas may be able to better comment. What do you need it for? If it's ffmpeg, you can just comment out the bit of its Makefile that needs it and it will build fine. -Nathan On 10/18/11 17:21, richo wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm hoping this isn't a similar case of having not RTFM like last time. > > I've got FreeBSD 9.0 BETA3 installed on my iMac (powerpc64) but the > binutils > port fails to proceed. > > I'm not quite sure I understand the issue, it suggests that > freebsd/powerpc64 > is not a supported architecture for ld, which is supported the file > referencced, my questions are > > 1) Is work in progress on this? > 2) How trivial is it to fix this? Is it a well documented process that > simply > needs to be applied to this platform, or is there low-level > powerpc-understanding wizardry involved? > > I have tried searching for more info, but I think all the keywords are so > general that I'm having trouble digging through all the false positives. > > The error in question is > > *** ld does not support target powerpc64-portbld-freebsd9.9 > *** see ld/configure.tgt for supported targets > gmake[1]: *** [configure-ld] Error 1 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/devel/binutils/work/binutils-2.21.1' > gmake: *** [all] Error 2 > *** Error code 1 > > Thanks in advance >
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