Am Sonntag, den 06.09.2009, 20:56 +0200 schrieb Yves Blusseau: > Le 6 sept. 09 à 16:54, Robert Millan a écrit : > > > On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 06:55:41AM +0200, Yves Blusseau wrote: > >> > >> Le 5 sept. 09 à 22:31, Robert Millan a écrit : > >> > >>> On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 03:17:58PM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Still the time and space required to build GCC is much larger than > >>>> that required for building grub. The OS X platform is somewhat > >>>> exotic > >>>> because it uses different object format and non-gnu linker so it is > >>>> more likely there will be issues with building GCC. Since the > >>>> time I > >>>> tried GCC is no longer self-containded but relies on additional > >>>> libraries that have to be installed separately so the user has to > >>>> compile several interdependent packages from source which certainly > >>>> requires more planning than just building a single package. > >>> > >>> Is there no simple mechanism for installing software on MacOS ? > >>> E.g. > >>> on > >>> Debian one would just use apt-get. I heard about the Fink project, > >>> although I haven't used it myself. > >> > >> On MacOS you can install external program by compiling it with > >> software > >> like Fink or MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/) > > > > I see that "gcc44" is listed there (as well as "apple-gcc42" for > > Apple's > > version which we're already "aquainted" with). > > > > So I take it that we can direct MacOS users to this repository, and > > they > > would be able to install a working GCC from it? > > Bad news grub not compiled on a GCC 4.4.1 from MacPorts: > > gcc-mp-4.4 -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 -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm - > DAPPLE_CC=1 -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 > 20:16loader/i386/linux.c: In function 'grub_linux_boot': > 20:16loader/i386/linux.c:546: error: can't find a register in class > 'BREG' while reloading 'asm' > 20:16loader/i386/linux.c:546: error: 'asm' operand has impossible > constraints > 20:16make: * [linux_mod-loader_i386_linux.o] Error 1 > > MacPorts don't use specific patch to build gcc so i think the behavior > is coded somewhere in the gcc source code. >
Exactly that line (well s/gcc-mp-4.4/gcc-4.4/) works fine with the Debian gcc 4.4.1-3 which is actually a SVN snapshot from 20090822 -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
