# S390x upgrades binutils package

**URL:** https://travis-ci.community/t/s390x-upgrades-binutils-package/13083
**Category:** Multi CPU Architecture
**Tags:** travis-build
**Created:** [June 14, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/s390x-upgrades-binutils-package/13083 "2022-06-14T11:35:05Z")
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#### Post date: [June 14, 2022, 11:35am UTC](https://travis-ci.community/t/s390x-upgrades-binutils-package/13083/1 "2022-06-14T11:35:05Z")

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binutils need to be upgraded to the latest version to avoid assembler incompatibility with gcc \>= 9 when comes to build VX/E CPU features.

Environment info:  
os: Linux  
dist: focal

Build error:

WARN: CCompilerOpt.dist\_test[630] : CCompilerOpt.\_dist\_test\_spawn[764] : Command (gcc -pthread -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Werror=vla -Werror=nonnull -Werror=pointer-arith -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -Wlogical-op -Wno-sign-compare -Werror=undef -fPIC -Inumpy/core/src/common -Inumpy/core/src -Inumpy/core -Inumpy/core/src/npymath -Inumpy/core/src/multiarray -Inumpy/core/src/umath -Inumpy/core/src/npysort -Inumpy/core/src/\_simd -I/home/travis/build/numpy/numpy/builds/venv/include -I/opt/python/3.8.13/include/python3.8 -Ibuild/src.linux-s390x-3.8/numpy/core/src/common -Ibuild/src.linux-s390x-3.8/numpy/core/src/npymath -c /home/travis/build/numpy/numpy/numpy/distutils/checks/cpu\_vx.c -o /tmp/tmpe08ytaj5/home/travis/build/numpy/numpy/numpy/distutils/checks/cpu\_vx.o -MMD -MF /tmp/tmpe08ytaj5/home/travis/build/numpy/numpy/numpy/distutils/checks/cpu\_vx.o.d -march=arch11 -mzvector -Werror) failed with exit status 1 output →

/tmp/ccEBFqR5.s: Assembler messages:

/tmp/ccEBFqR5.s:19: Error: junk at end of line: `,3’

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