diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index 9f40d043f3..6388638e04 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-07-31  Jan Kratochvil  <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
+
+	* emultempl/spuelf.em: Abort on the missing required `spu_ovl.o'.
+
 2008-07-30  Alan Modra  <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
 
 	* emultempl/pe.em, emultempl/pep.em: Silence gcc warnings.
diff --git a/ld/emultempl/spuelf.em b/ld/emultempl/spuelf.em
index 865078c6a6..2ad3663567 100644
--- a/ld/emultempl/spuelf.em
+++ b/ld/emultempl/spuelf.em
@@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ char **my_argv;
 static const char ovl_mgr[] = {
 EOF
 
-../binutils/bin2c < ${srcdir}/emultempl/spu_ovl.o >> e${EMULATION_NAME}.c
+if ! ../binutils/bin2c < ${srcdir}/emultempl/spu_ovl.o >> e${EMULATION_NAME}.c
+then
+  echo >&2 "Missing ${srcdir}/emultempl/spu_ovl.o"
+  echo >&2 "You must build gas/as-new with --target=spu to build spu_ovl.o"
+  exit 1
+fi
 
 fragment <<EOF
 };