On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:11 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > Background: > > I tripped over a grub bug in Fedora Core 3 on x86_64 (actually, > probably any arch with NX support). It was suggested that I fetch > and build the rawhide version of grub to see if the problem has been > fixed. See > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147392 > > It turns out that the latest version of the grub SRPM will not build > on FC3. This seems very unfortunate. I would consider it a bug. Is > this known? Intended? A good thing? > > Details: > I fetched > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/grub-0.95-12.src.rpm > Trying to build it on FC3 x86_64 + updates failed with errors: > checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: > C compiler > cannot create executables > > Reading config.log, I see instead a couple of compiler errors. Both > suggest > that a different version of gcc was expected: > configure:2396: gcc -V </dev/null >&5 > gcc: `-V' option must have argument > > configure:2425: gcc -m32 -Os -g -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wno- > pointer-sign > -Werror -Wno-shadow -static conftest.c >&5 > cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-pointer-sign" > > I got the same errors in FC3 i386 + updates. > > FC3 is GCC3, while rawhide is currently being targetted for FC4, which is GCC4. There are unfortunate differences. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating