Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix]binutils dependency in AIX
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:04:46
Message-Id: 20080719220358.GB195@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] [prefix]binutils dependency in AIX by Greg
1 On 17-07-2008 11:52:36 -0500, Greg wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > Jeremy Olexa wrote:
5 >
6 >> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Greg <trigggl@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>
10 >>> Out of pure optimism, I'm trying to install mplayer. I doubt it will work,
11 >>> but I'm going to try. I've been using --nodeps on a package by package
12 >>>
13 >>>
14 >>
15 >> Very optimistic. =)
16 >>
17 >>
18 > Detected operating system: AIX
19 > Detected host architecture: UNKNOWN
20 > Checking for powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-gcc version ... 4.2.4
21 > Checking for host cc ... powerpc-ibm-aix5.2.0.0-gcc
22 > Checking for cross compilation ... no
23 > The architecture of your CPU (UNKNOWN) is not supported by this
24 > configure script
25 > It seems nobody has ported MPlayer to your OS or CPU type yet.
26 >
27 > Error: unsupported architecture UNKNOWN
28 >
29 >
30 > Is this a show-stopper? Or can I somehow force it to a known/correct
31 > CPU type?
32
33 Not sure, I guess somehow must be possible, but I'm affraid not without
34 hacking the sources here and there. PPC support is in there (via OSX),
35 AIX not so much I guess. Biggest problem now I think is that it can't
36 detect your CPU properly (UNKNOWN).
37
38 --
39 Fabian Groffen
40 Gentoo on a different level (Interix even! Windows has never been so exciting!)