Re: 64-bit UEFI build is broken

[Lukas Anzinger]

I also encountered the same problem when I tried to build Debian
packages out of trunk.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-10/msg00048.html

Answer from Vladimir:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-11/msg00016.html

I have not tried the suggested workaround from Vladimir yet, though.

Regards,

Lukas

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 07:17, Seth Goldberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  Just a followup -- it appears that the root cause is a missing "-m64" --
> since the compilation for this platform should be done with -m64, the
> preprocessing done for .lst generation should also be done with that cflag,
> otherwise (at least in this case), the library gets confused.
>
>  Adding 'TARGET_CPPFLAGS=-m64" to the configure line allowed the build to
> finish without errors (though I'm not sure if that's the proper fix).
>
>  --S
>
> Quoting Seth Goldberg, who wrote the following on Tue, 8 Nov 2011:
>
>>
>> Latest trunk (Linux host, configured with "--target=x86_64
>> --with-platform=efi") stops while building btrfs:
>>
>> gcc -E -DGRUB_LST_GENERATOR -Dgrub_fs_register=FS_LIST_MARKER
>> -Dgrub_video_register=VIDEO_LIST_MARKER
>> -Dgrub_parttool_register=PARTTOOL_LIST_MARKER
>> -Dgrub_partition_map_register=PARTMAP_LIST_MARKER
>> '-Dgrub_term_register_input(...)=INPUT_TERMINAL_LIST_MARKER(__VA_ARGS__)'
>> '-Dgrub_term_register_output(...)=OUTPUT_TERMINAL_LIST_MARKER(__VA_ARGS__)'
>> '-Dgrub_register_command(...)=COMMAND_LIST_MARKER(__VA_ARGS__)'
>> '-Dgrub_register_extcmd(...)=EXTCOMMAND_LIST_MARKER(__VA_ARGS__)'
>> '-Dgrub_register_command_p1(...)=P1COMMAND_LIST_MARKER(__VA_ARGS__)'
>> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../grub-core -I..  -Wall -W -I../../include
>> -I../include  -DGRUB_MACHINE_EFI=1 -DGRUB_MACHINE=X86_64_EFI -nostdinc
>> -isystem /usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.6.1/include
>> -DGRUB_FILE=\"fs/btrfs.c\" -I. -I../../grub-core -I.. -I../..
>> -I../../include -I../include -I../../grub-core/lib/posix_wrap
>> -I../../grub-core/lib/minilzo -DMINILZO_HAVE_CONFIG_H
>> ../../grub-core/fs/btrfs.c ../../grub-core/lib/crc.c
>>>
>>> btrfs.marker.new || (rm -f btrfs.marker; exit 1)
>>
>> In file included from ../../grub-core/lib/minilzo/lzoconf.h:75:0,
>>                from ../../grub-core/lib/minilzo/minilzo.h:60,
>>                from ../../grub-core/fs/btrfs.c:29:
>> ../../grub-core/lib/minilzo/lzodefs.h:849:6: error: #error "this should
>> not happen"
>> make[3]: *** [btrfs.marker] Error 1
>>
>>
>>  It's not expecting sizeof(ulong_t) to exceed 32-bits.
>>
>> --S
>>
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