make fails on ppc64le - Error: unrecognized opcode: `rdpmc'

[nasastry]

Cloned from master and ran make command.

gcc -Wall -O2 -g -I../../include -c -o rdpmc_invalid.o rdpmc_invalid.c
/tmp/ccNwuEkW.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/ccNwuEkW.s:40: Error: unrecognized opcode: `rdpmc'
make[2]: *** [: rdpmc_invalid.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/perf_event_tests-master/tests/rdpmc'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:17: all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/perf_event_tests-master/tests'
make: *** [Makefile:9: all] Error 2

# uname -m
ppc64le

[nasastry]

Removing the following commit

660a091

helped to successfully compile using make