Re: Failed to build grub2

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 06:23:13AM -0500, Francis Gendreau wrote:
> 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!

You mean upgrading binutils, or appliing my suggested change?

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

Can you give more details?  Perhaps it'd make sense to work around it.

-- 
Robert Millan

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