On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:01:23PM +0200, Yves Blusseau wrote: >> >> It's much easier to make official GCC a build requirement. People >> hacking >> on GRUB source, or distributors (e.g. Fink) should have no problem >> with a >> dependency on GCC. > > So what you can do because currently we can't compil grub on OSX: > > gcc-4.2 -Iloader/i386 -I./loader/i386 -I. -I./include -I./include -Wall > -W -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes > -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -g -Os -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 > -falign-functions=1 -DAPPLE_CC=1 -fnested-functions -m32 > -fno-stack-protector -mno-stack-arg-probe -fno-builtin -mrtd -mregparm=3 > -m32 -MD -c -o linux_mod-loader_i386_linux.o loader/i386/linux.c > loader/i386/linux.c: In function ‘grub_linux_boot’: > loader/i386/linux.c:546: error: can't find a register in class ‘BREG’ > while reloading ‘asm’ > loader/i386/linux.c:542: error: ‘asm’ operand has impossible constraints > loader/i386/linux.c:543: error: ‘asm’ operand has impossible constraints > loader/i386/linux.c:546: error: ‘asm’ operand has impossible constraints > make: *** [linux_mod-loader_i386_linux.o] Error 1
I assume you installed Apple's version of GCC. Can you try with an official GCC release? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
