On 8/9/06, Isaac <isaacdupree@charter.net> wrote:
Be warned, something funky happened in my gentoo installation and I
switched to Ubuntu :)
(same hardware, and running a gentoo kernel until I can make it boot
successfully with an official ubuntu one)
(ubuntu has a buildbot package in "universe" too, so that'll be convenient)

$ darcs get http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/yhc-devel
$ scons
[... all good here]
gcc -I. -I/usr/local/include -Idepends/ctypes/libffi/include
- -Idepends/ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc -Idepends/ctypes/libffi/include
- -Idepends/ctypes/libffi/src -Idepends/ctypes/libffi/src/powerpc
- -Idepends/ctypes/libffi -c -o depends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.o
depends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.S
depends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.S: Assembler messages:
depends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.S:42: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `pushl'
depends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.S:44: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `movl'
[... lots more similar errors]
scons: *** [depends/ctypes/libffi/src/x86/sysv.o] Error 1
scons: building terminated because of errors.

Oops. that's a silly copy and paste error on my part. Fixed now :-) Please try again.

Andrew