FYI, I was able to get grub built with only the memory patch by installing compat-gcc-34 (and compat-gcc-34-c++ for good measure), and feeding CC=gcc34 as a variable to configure. So apparently that was just a compatibility issue where F7 must use an older version of gcc. I still have no clue how to build after applying grub-fedora-8.patch, though. ____________________________________ From: fedora-xen-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dustin Henning Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 17:20 To: fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils I hope this isn't off topic since the bug I am trying to resolve only affects the xen kernel... I am trying to compile grub on Fedora 8 because I need to apply the patch for bug 250299. First, I downloaded and installed http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/8/Fedora/source/SRPMS/grub-0.97-19 .src.rpm Next, I extracted the included grub-0.97.tar.gz to /usr/src/ At this point, if I run configure, I will get the error mentioned in the subject, as follows: [CODE]checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for ranlib... ranlib checking whether optimization for size works... yes checking whether gcc has -fno-stack-protector... yes checking whether -Wundef works... yes checking whether -falign-loops works... yes checking for objcopy... objcopy checking if C symbols get an underscore after compilation... no checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... no configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils[/CODE] However, I am running binutils 2.17.50.0.18 which is the latest in the fedora repo, so I cannot upgrade, and I do not know how to downgrade. I saw another issue where this same error was happening, and someone suggested downloading ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.97.tar.gz and using it. I tried this and determined that that is the exact file included in the srpm I had downloaded, and the error still surfaces when I try it. Additionally, if I apply the included grub-fedora-8.patch, the configure file disappears. I can get it from the tar again, but I will still get the same error, so while I need to know how I am supposed to compile after applying that patch (which I apply before the patch for the aforementioned bug), but that point is moot until I can determine how to fix this binutils issue. -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
