title: Use of -meabi option in gcc powerpc compile
body: <p>I have inherited a powerpc project that built fine under a SUSE linux environment back around 2008.  My goal is to build the same thing in Linux Mint (v 17). The target processor is a powerpc, which is set in the environment variables, I believe. During the build on Mint linux, it produces the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>developer@Will-test-Mint-VM ~/temp/linux.apps $ make -f Makefile.runme
  make DESTDIR=`pwd`/tmp install
  make[1]: Entering directory `/home/developer/temp/linux.apps'
  Making install in libStreamerControl
  make[2]: Entering directory `/home/developer/temp/linux.apps/libStreamerControl'
  /bin/bash ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  -I../include  -I../include -ffixed-r14 -meabi -fno-builtin -std=gnu99 -Wall -g -O2 -MT streamerControl.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/streamerControl.Tpo -c -o streamerControl.lo streamerControl.c
  libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../include -I../include -ffixed-r14 -meabi -fno-builtin -std=gnu99 -Wall -g -O2 -MT streamerControl.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/streamerControl.Tpo -c streamerControl.c -o streamerControl.o
  gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-meabi'
  make[2]: *** [streamerControl.lo] Error 1
   ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It is complaining about the <code>-meabi</code> option.  I have installed/updated some packages that may be relevant (updated versions of eldk-5.6, automake, libtool, and powerpc-linux-gnu-gcc 4.8.2).</p>
  
  <p>Specifically, I would like to know about the <code>-meabi</code> option. I didn't find a lot about it.  What could be causing the compiler to not know what it is?  I saw the output build from the SUSE setup, and it handled the <code>-meabi</code> option fine.  Any suggestions?
  Thanks,
  Will</p>