[Trustedgrub-users] Trouble building 1.1.3 on Fedora

[Matt A. <mr...@hp...>]

I tried to build TrustedGRUB-1.1.3 on my Fedora 8 system, but I get an
error at ./configure time:
GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils

I have Fedora's binutils-2.17.50.0.18-1 from October 27th 2007, and with
something like binutils I'm hesitant to roll my own instead of using a
distro packaged version.  I checked gnu.org and they have a
binutils-2.18 from August of 2007, but for whatever reason that hasn't
been sucked into Fedora yet.

Does anyone know if TrustedGRUB will build with 2.18, or is there
something else missing/wrong with my setup and the ./configure error
message is just stale?  What distros have others been successful at
building TrustedGrub on?

thanks
-matt