'make check' fails on PPC64

[Fuzzy Logic]

I'm pretty sure it was built from an official GNU release. This is a
SUSE 9 system, so the bintools version is probably 2.15 with the rest
referring to when the SUSE team built it.

> as -V
GNU assembler version 2.15.90.0.1.1 (powerpc-suse-linux) using BFD
version 2.15.90.0.1.1 20040303 (SuSE Linux)
> cat /etc/SuSE-release
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (ppc)
VERSION = 9
PATCHLEVEL = 3
> ld -V
GNU ld version 2.15.90.0.1.1 20040303 (SuSE Linux)
  Supported emulations:
   elf32ppclinux
   elf32ppc
   elf32ppcsim
   elf64ppc

Fuzzy

On 19 Feb 2007 08:15:27 +0100, Torbjorn Granlund wrote:

> That's a bizarre version number.  Somebody got carried away with
> concatenating number components.  Surely, it is not an official GNU
> release.
>
> "Fuzzy Logic" <fuzzymo at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Yes, that helped.
> >
> > rpm -q binutils returns:
> > binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-32.17