[pulseaudio-discuss] Build assembler errors on ARM OMAP3

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Kurt Taylor at 07/02/11 18:52 did gyre and gimble:
> 
> I am seeing the following when trying to build pulseaudio on an
> ARM-based Beagleboard (OMAP3):
> 
>   CC     libpulsecore_1.0_la-svolume_arm.lo
> ../libtool: line 975: warning: setlocale: LC_MESSAGES: cannot change
> locale (en_GB.utf8)
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:82: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in
> IT block -- `addcs r0,r8'
> {standard input}:83: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in
> IT block -- `movcs r6,r0'
> {standard input}:98: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in
> IT block -- `addcs r0,r8'
> {standard input}:99: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in
> IT block -- `movcs r6,r0'
> {standard input}:119: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in
> IT block -- `addcs r0,r8'
> {standard input}:120: Error: thumb conditional instruction should be in
> IT block -- `movcs r6,r0'
> 
> I am using the normal build (bootstrap.sh, configure, make) on Linaro
> ALIP on the Beagleboard. The build worked fine on a Pandaboard with
> Ubuntu 10.10. It looks like something is different and not being
> detected via bootstrap/configure on ALIP.
> 
> I believe configure has identified the architecture correctly. Also, I
> have searched and seen commits in the pulseaudio/ubuntu maillist archive
> for adding "-Wa, -mimplicit-it=thumb". I have added this to CFLAGS
> without success.
> 
> Any thoughts on what else I could try?

Hmm, not sure to be honest. Arun has been looking at Orc stuff to
ultimately replace hand-written assembly but it's perhaps a bit early to
think about that for ARM.

Perhaps try speaking to the folk in git log for that file (basically
poke Arun (Ford_Prefect) or Wim (wtay) on IRC :))

Col


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