<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi Toby,</div><div><br></div><div>a known issue - essentially an invalid ppc asm comment delimiter. The problem is described and a patch is available at <a href="https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32649">https://trac.macports.org/ticket/32649</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Cheerio, Harry.</div><br><div><div>On Jan 16, 2012, at 10:11 AM, <a href="mailto:erlang-questions-request@erlang.org">erlang-questions-request@erlang.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:54:40 -0500<br>From: Toby Thain <<a href="mailto:toby@telegraphics.com.au">toby@telegraphics.com.au</a>><br>Subject: [erlang-questions] error in hipe_ppc_bifs.S - building R15B<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>on OS X<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>10.4.11<br><br>Is this known to be broken?<br><br>After a plain ./configure; make of otp_src_R15B:<br><br>powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0/opt/smp/hipe_ppc_bifs.S:457:Parameter syntax<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>error (parameter 3)<br><br>...and hundreds more occurrences.<br><br>--Toby<br></span></blockquote></div><br></body></html>