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

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

Thanks for all the help, but unfortunately this still didn't get it.  I
am trying to build TrustedGrub on a core 2 duo system which is
identifying itself as i386 in all these checks.

I tried building binutils from the latest upstream sources, and that
still didn't work.  I think this might be an issue with the fact that
the core 2 duos can be x86_64 but I've got an i386 based distribution
installed on my system.

Next I think I'm going to try an x86_64 based copy of Fedora on this
system and see if that can build TrustedGrub.

-matt

Marcel Selhorst wrote:
> I just googled your error message and it seems, that this bug is
> related to some compilers in 64-Bit machine distributions. Although on
> my Gentoo 64-Bit machine, everything compiles smoothly, there might be
> some incompatibilities with other distros...
> Please try the following fix I found on the net:
> 
> --- grub-0.97-bkp/configure.ac	2005-11-05 16:53:00.419491832 -0200
> +++ grub-0.97/configure.ac	2005-11-05 16:53:13.777461112 -0200
> @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
>  fi
> 
>  if test "x$host_cpu" = xx86_64; then
> -  CFLAGS="-m32 $CFLAGS"
> +  CFLAGS="-m64 $CFLAGS"
>  fi
> 
> Best regards,
> Marcel
> 
> Matt Anderson schrieb:
>> Marcel Selhorst wrote:
>>> oh... never heard of that error message before ;)
>> Heh.. why do I get the feeling I should have looked harder for an FAQ :)
>>
>>> My binutils-version is 2.18, but I'm pretty sure, that 2.17 should
>>> work as well... Which version of aclocal, autoconf, automake etc. are
>>> you using? Can you post the complete log of ./configure?
>> [mra@orb TrustedGRUB-1.1.3]$ 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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