[Valgrind-users] Problem building ppc64 tests due to altivec flag...

[Bob C. <dev...@mi...>]

Hello,

I was cross compiling valgrind tonight using OpenEmbbeded and ran into 
an error during the compilation of none/tests/ppc64/jm-insns.c.

Although configure correctly determined that my Freescale T1040 (E5500) 
doesn't support Altivec, the Makefile in none/tests/ppc64 appears to 
have -maltivec hardcoded for jm_insns_CFLAGS.

Compiling failed when GCC was passed -maltivec.

I patched out the altivec flag in the Makefile, and my valgrind packages 
finished building (won't try the test suite any time soon).

 From searching, I see that there have been Altivec issues in the past, 
but I didn't see this particular issue come up.  Can I get some guidance 
on whether this is a bug in the Makefile or whether it's something that 
I should be avoiding if I had configured things differently?

Thanks

Bob