Ryan Schmidt wrote:
320 results for "Unknown pseudo-op: .balign" on Google. Looks to me like that's a PowerPC thing, and you're on Intel.
It's actually not a PowerPC thing. If I remember my gas right, it's just a macro; you should be able to substitute '.align X' for any set of '.balign Y'. If memory serves, X = log2 of Y, or maybe I have that reversed. I haven't needed to know gas since undergrad. It appears to be the case, judging from some traffic on the Fink list, that it's caused by Mactel gas being old and out-of-date compared to the current gas in binutils.
it. Port has no maintainer. Any reason we can't update this to 0.3.10? I have no idea what it is, what it's for or what might be using it.
liboil.freedesktop.org describes it as "a library of simple functions that are optimized for various CPUs". A lot of stuff in GNOME depends upon it.