From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 22:28:53 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2041065672 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:28:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from agogare.doit.wisc.edu (agogare.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83BE68FC22 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:28:53 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LTA002009447U00@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:28:52 -0500 (CDT) Received: from wanderer.tachypleus.net ([unknown] [128.104.255.9]) by smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LTA00ANH943BK40@smtpauth2.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:28:51 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:28:51 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <20111018222102.GA6722@richh-imac.office.boxdice.com.au> To: richo Message-id: <4E9DFDA3.901@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=128.104.255.9 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-10, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.10.18.221815, SenderIP=128.104.255.9 References: <20111018222102.GA6722@richh-imac.office.boxdice.com.au> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110928 Thunderbird/7.0 Cc: freebsd-ppc Subject: Re: binutils + ppc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:28:53 -0000 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 >