Re: Failed to build grub2

[Francis Gendreau]

On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 12:07 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 04:41:27AM -0500, Francis Gendreau wrote:
> >             GNU assembler 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23
> > [...]
> > gcc -Iboot/i386/pc -I./boot/i386/pc -I. -Iinclude -I./include -Wall -W
> > -DASM_FILE=1  -nostdinc -fno-builtin -m32 -MD -c -o
> > lnxboot_img-boot_i386_pc_lnxboot.o boot/i386/pc/lnxboot.S
> > lnxboot.S: Assembler messages:
> > lnxboot.S:49: Error: `0x200+data_start - data_next(%ebx,%eax)' is not a
> > valid 16 bit base/index expression
> > lnxboot.S:264: Error: `(%esi,%eax)' is not a valid 16 bit base/index
> > expression
> > lnxboot.S:265: Error: `(%edi,%eax)' is not a valid 16 bit base/index
> > expression
> > gmake: *** [lnxboot_img-boot_i386_pc_lnxboot.o] Error 1
> > 
> > I hope someone here may have a clue how to fix the problem. I ignore
> > almost everything about the Assembly language.
> 
> I don't see anything wrong in the code (`(%esi,%eax)' is indeed not a valid
> 16 bit base/index, but it AFAICT it isn't meant to be).
> 
> However, your binutils are a bit old.  Perhaps this is a bug they fixed ?
> 
> Anyway, maybe this solves the problem for you:
> 
> +       .code32
>         leal    0x200 + data_start - data_next(%ebx,%eax), %eax
> +       .code16
> 
> (please report if it does)
> 
Yes it did, thanks!

I continue to upgrade my applications, like bison, it seems to misbehave
on the normal/parser.y file on '%' character.

Have a happy year! (in advance)

Francis