Qt 2.2.2 problem on PPC/Linux

[Franz Sirl]

On Tuesday 05 December 2000 20:02, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Hello
>
> I ran into the following problem when compiling Qt 2.2.2 on Yellow Dog
> Linux 1.2 (Redhat for PowerPC).  It uses g++ v2.92.2, and GNU as
> 2.9.5-moto-1.7.  I configured Qt using '-gif'.
>
>   g++ -c -I/usr/X11R6/include
>   -I/store/store/zoot/qt2/src-2.2.2-ppclinuxlibc6/include
>   -I/usr/X11R6/include -pipe -O2 -fPIC -DQT_NO_QWS_VOODOO3
>   -DQT_NO_QWS_MACH64 -DQT_NO_QWS_MATROX -DQT_BUILTIN_GIF_READER=1
>   -DQT_NO_IMAGEIO_JPEG -DQT_NO_IMAGEIO_MNG
>   -I/store/store/zoot/qt2/src-2.2.2-ppclinuxlibc6/src/3rdparty/zlib
>   -I/store/store/zoot/qt2/src-2.2.2-ppclinuxlibc6/src/3rdparty/libpng
>   -I/usr/X11R6/include -o xml/qxml.o xml/qxml.cpp
>
>   {standard input}: Assembler messages:
>   {standard input}:63839: Error: operand out of range (-33212 not
>   between -32768 and 32767)
>   make[2]: *** [xml/qxml.o] Error 1
>   make[2]: Leaving directory
>   `/store/store/zoot/qt2/src-2.2.2-ppclinuxlibc6/src'
>
> Is this a well known problem?  It looks like a problem with the
> compiler, but I send a copy to Trolltech just in case. :-)

This is an old error, upgrade to a newer gcc RPM, either from YDL or from 
ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/glibc-2.1/RPMS/ppc/

Franz.