[Flac-dev] Compile flac-1.1.1 on ppc Linux

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Hi all,

I'm trying to compile the flac-1.1.1 tarball on a Linux PPC system (a G3 iBook
running Debian Testing).

Configure is fine, but make bombs out almost immediately with:

   lpc_asm.s: Assembler messages:
   lpc_asm.s:1: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `l'
   lpc_asm.s:2: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `C'
   lpc_asm.s:4: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `R'
   lpc_asm.s:5: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `m'
   lpc_asm.s:6: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `a'
   lpc_asm.s:8: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `-'
   lpc_asm.s:9: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `n'
   <snip>

It seems that as is barfing at the comments. However, even stripping all comments
from the code results in compilation errors like:

   lpc_asm.s: Assembler messages:
   lpc_asm.s:70: Error: syntax error; found `(' but expected `,'
   lpc_asm.s:70: Error: junk at end of line: `(0xfffffc00)'
   lpc_asm.s:71: Error: syntax error; found `(' but expected `,'
   lpc_asm.s:71: Error: junk at end of line: `(0xfffffc00)'
   lpc_asm.s:85: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `lvewx'
   lpc_asm.s:86: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `vspltisb'
   lpc_asm.s:87: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `vsro'
   lpc_asm.s:90: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `lvsl'
   lpc_asm.s:91: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `vsldoi'
   lpc_asm.s:93: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `lvsl'
   lpc_asm.s:94: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `vspltisb'
   lpc_asm.s:95: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `vspltisb'
   lpc_asm.s:96: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `vmrglw'
   <snip>

At least some of those error look like Altivec instructions which of course
are not present on my G3 iBook.

For now, I'm compling with  --disable-asm-optimizations.

Erik
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