[FFmpeg-devel] build failure in ppc/fft_altivec_s.S (osx 10.5.8)

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:43:45AM -0600, Pavel Koshevoy wrote:
> On 10/28/2012 11:36 AM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 11:05:13AM -0600, Pavel Koshevoy wrote:
> >>On 10/27/2012 11:34 PM, Pavel Koshevoy wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I am getting the following error when building on my ppc g4 iMac (OSX 10.5)
> >>>
> >>>AS    libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.o
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:731:Parameter
> >>>syntax error (parameter 2)
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:731:Invalid
> >>>mnemonic 'got(r11)'
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:771:Parameter
> >>>syntax error (parameter 2)
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:771:Invalid
> >>>mnemonic 'got(r11)'
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:778:Parameter
> >>>syntax error (parameter 2)
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:778:Invalid
> >>>mnemonic 'got(r11)'
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:1250:Parameter
> >>>syntax error (parameter 2)
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:1250:Invalid
> >>>mnemonic 'got(r11)'
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:1290:Parameter
> >>>syntax error (parameter 2)
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:1290:Invalid
> >>>mnemonic 'got(r11)'
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:1297:Parameter
> >>>syntax error (parameter 2)
> >>>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.S:1297:Invalid
> >>>mnemonic 'got(r11)'
> >>>make: *** [libavcodec/ppc/fft_altivec_s.o] Error 1
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>If someone can suggest a fix I can try it (tomorrow).
> >>>
> >>>Thank you,
> >>>    Pavel.
> >>My configuration command line was
> >>/nfs/scratch/Developer/ffmpeg-git-src/configure
> >>--prefix=/Developer/ppc --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter
> >>--enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libopus
> >>--enable-libtheora --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libopenjpeg
> >>--enable-libmodplug --enable-libvpx --enable-libspeex
> >>--enable-shared --enable-pthreads --enable-gpl --enable-version3
> >>--enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb
> >>--enable-postproc --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid
> >>--enable-runtime-cpudetect --extra-cflags=-I/opt/local/include
> >>--extra-ldflags='-headerpad_max_install_names -L/opt/local/lib'
> >Why do you need --enable-shared? Without it no GOT indirection should be
> >necessary.
> 
> I may not need shared libs, so this may is a suitable workaround for
> me.  However, most of my configure parameters were copied from
> macports ffmpeg-devel port file.  They build it as a shared library,
> so I imagine they probably don't use gas-preprocessor, which sucks
> for macports users.
> 
> 
> >Using newer versions of gcc and binutils might help, too.
> 
> Yeah, I started port install gcc47, it will take a while to build.
> I'll install binutils 2.21 after that's done, and try again.

4.7 started using more C++ code, you might have huge trouble compiling
it if you don't have lots of memory installed.
Going with 4.6 might be better/simpler/faster.