[lxml-dev] CPU you selected does not support x86-64 instruction set

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Fri Feb 15 15:29:01 CET 2008


Hi,

js wrote:
> I was trying to install lxml on FreeBSD 6.2 Xeon server with
> "easy_install lxml",
> but I got weird error "CPU you selected does not support x86-64
> instruction set".
> I searched on the web with no luck.
> 
> Does anybody know this error?

You didn't give the complete error output, but check your CFLAGS (and the
command line you see when the compiler starts up). Maybe there's something
wrong with the compiler options that distutils use.

Stefan


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