From 401f6a7126fe26eb486a0d99393485abd2ef5ade Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos@ag.or.at>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 23:23:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Do not suggest to use gas-preprocessor if using it would
 break compilation.

gas-preprocessor does not work on ppc with pic and on ppc64.
---
 configure | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index e215a2aa16d..f1ba054a039 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3865,7 +3865,9 @@ elif enabled ppc; then
 
     # AltiVec flags: The FSF version of GCC differs from the Apple version
     if enabled altivec; then
-        nogas=warn
+        if ! enabled_any pic ppc64; then
+            nogas=warn
+        fi
         check_cflags -maltivec -mabi=altivec &&
         { check_header altivec.h && inc_altivec_h="#include <altivec.h>" ; } ||
         check_cflags -faltivec
-- 
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