[x264-devel] cannot build x264: error on the binutils stuff

[Jonas Kuepper]

 Hi there,

i try to build x264 on a x64-server running Suse Enterprise Linux 10 SP1 . Sadly i'm running into a compile error which says 
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Found GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.21
Minimum version is binutils-2.17
Your compiler can't handle inline SSSE3 asm.
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this is caused by the error 
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gcc conftest.c  -Wall -I. -std=gnu99    -lm -o conftest
/tmp/cclSP4Km.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/cclSP4Km.s:12: Error: no such instruction: `pabsw %xmm0,%xmm0'
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(from config.log)

i have
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20070115 (SUSE Linux)
yasm 1.0.0.2319
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.21

i currently out of options right now, i searched every forum or mailinglist and i don't know what to do: i already (as you can see) updated binutils.

I simply do not know right now if this is caused by the rather dated distro (upgrading is currently not an option since we cannot afford to take the server offline), if the compiler uses the wrong assembler or if there are other problems.

the thing is we use some very tricky videoencoding scripts and want to expand them, but it seems every possible tool we use relies heavily on a quite up to date x264 library. So we're stuck here with Mplayer 1.0rc2 and an old ffmpeg on this sever.

so any help what to install or hack or whatever to do is heavily appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Jonas

jonas.kuepper at cinepostproduction.de