[Cbe-oss-dev] Problems compiling spe-samples-1.0 on PS3

[Geoff Levand]

Andreas Thorsén wrote:
> Geoff Levand skrev:
>>> generated by GNU Autoconf 2.59.  Invocation command line was
>> 
>> 
>> I have Autoconf 2.61, I think that may be the trouble. You
>> must have an old distro.  I'm not interested in supporting
>> old stuff.  You should see if there is a package update for
>> autoconf available.
>> 
>>> configure:1710: checking whether the C compiler works
>>> configure:1716: ./a.out
>>> ./configure: line 1717: ./a.out: cannot execute binary file
>> 
>> Here's where it fails.  It doesn't seem to understand it is a
>> cross-compile.
>> 
>>> host=''
>>> host_alias='spu'
>>> host_cpu=''
>>> host_os=''
>>> host_vendor=''
>> 
>> I have:
>> 
>> host='spu-unknown-elf'
>> host_alias='spu'
>> host_cpu='spu'
>> host_os='elf'
>> host_vendor='unknown'
> 
> Umm.. I seem to have resolved this issue. I installed 'ed' and 'elfspe2' 
> because I had problems with something else and now I have no problems 
> with your samples. './bootstrap', './configure' and 'make' all work. I 
> guess elfspe2 was the missing piece of the puzzle?

Sorry you had all that trouble.  I just installed all the 'SPE Runtime Lib v2.1'
stuff from http://www.bsc.es/projects/deepcomputing/linuxoncell/.

I realized when you first sent your report that it would be best to check
for installed packages from the configure script and give a warning or error
when dependencies are missing.  I'll try to add that support when I next
work on my samples.

-Geoff