Re: [Trustedgrub-users] Trouble building 1.1.3 on Fedora

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

Marcel Selhorst wrote:
> oh... never heard of that error message before ;)

Heh.. why do I get the feeling I should have looked harder for an FAQ :)

> My binutils-version is 2.18, but I'm pretty sure, that 2.17 should
> work as well... Which version of aclocal, autoconf, automake etc. are
> you using? Can you post the complete log of ./configure?

[mra@orb TrustedGRUB-1.1.3]$ rpm -q automake
automake-1.10-6
[mra@orb TrustedGRUB-1.1.3]$ rpm -q autoconf
autoconf-2.61-9.fc8
[mra@orb TrustedGRUB-1.1.3]$ which aclocal
/usr/bin/aclocal
[mra@orb TrustedGRUB-1.1.3]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/aclocal
automake-1.10-6
[mra@orb TrustedGRUB-1.1.3]$ rpm -q binutils
binutils-2.17.50.0.18-1
[mra@orb TrustedGRUB-1.1.3]$ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-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 ISO C89... 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

> I have successfully build TrustedGRUB on Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu and
> SuSE.

Hmm.. okay, I've also gotten it to build on SuSE using their srpms, but
from the sound of it no one has made it work on RH/Fedora... yet.  I
have a couple other versions of automake on my system, next I'll try to
mess with my environment in order to use an alternate version and see
what that gets me.

-matt

> Matt Anderson schrieb:
>> 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
>>
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