1. sdbinutils is a fork of the regular binutils 2. none of the developers has a PPC machine probably 3. embedspu is a strange one - it embeds an executable for the SPE (Cell) into a binary for the PPE (PowerPC). It makes sense to build embedspu on for the PowerPC (cross-)target. Note, binutils not only has a target (runtime) architecture, but also "supported" targets, i.e. architectures it can handle code for. Have a look at the output of "ld --help | grep riscv". Due do a complete lack of any options for configuring the build of embedspu (I checked configure and the makefiles) I see no other sensible option than to fix it up afterwards.