Re: Happy new year

2006-01-01 Thread Andre Smith
Happy New Year! > -Original Message- > From: Marco Gerards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2006 11:44 AM > To: grub-devel@gnu.org > Subject: Happy new year > > Happy new year! > > -- > Marco > > > > ___ > Grub-devel mail

GRUB2 Compilation Error

2005-12-31 Thread Andre Smith
I attempted to compile GRUB2 on Ubuntu Linux and I got the following message: make: *** No rule to make target `util/powerpc/ieee1275/grub-install.in', needed by `grub-install'. Stop. As I mentioned, I am new to the development process, but is this as simple as it seems; a make rule missing fo

Re: Nested Function Patches

2005-12-23 Thread andre-smith
that I may have caused. Andre > -Original Message- > From: Marco Gerards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 08:33 AM > To: 'The development of GRUB 2' > Subject: Re: Nested Function Patches > > Andre Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Nested Function Patches

2005-12-22 Thread Andre Smith
As I mentioned before, Apple has disabled nested function support for GRUB2. Would the group be willing to accept patches addressing this issue? I would like to see GRUB2 on Mac OS X. I do have a very simple patch for help.c, and I would like continue the work with the groups blessing. _

Re: GRUB2 Build on Mac OS X

2005-12-08 Thread andre-smith
The Mac OS X GCC compiler will not build GRUB2, due static linking at address 0x2000; this error can be confirmed during the configure process. If I could build GRUB2 using the Mac OS X GCC, I would be able to build GRUB2 images from Mac OS X. The binary I attempted the build using the cross co

GRUB2 Build on Mac OS X

2005-12-07 Thread Andre Smith
The GRUB2 build fails on Mac OS X, due to non-support of nested functions in GCC on OS X. The reasoning behind this, the GCC implementation of nested functions uses stack based execution. Hackers use buffer overflows, along with stack based execution, to exploit weaknesses in poorly written

Re: Broken Build on Mac OS X

2005-12-03 Thread Andre Smith
to compiling - ../gcc-4.0.2/configure --target=powerpc-linux --prefix=/Users/andreywarkentin/crossdev/powerpc-linux --disable- shared --disable-threads --enable-languages=c,c++ --with-newlib On Dec 3, 2005, at 11:30 AM, Andre Smith wrote: Thank you for that information Marco. I will get on the

Re: Broken Build on Mac OS X

2005-12-03 Thread Andre Smith
ck to GRUB2 list. Andre On Dec 3, 2005, at 8:00 AM, Marco Gerards wrote: Andre Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: gcc -Icommands -Igrub2/commands -I. -Iinclude -Igrub2/include -Wall - W -DGRUB_DATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275\" -g -O2 - DGRUB_UTIL=1 -c -o gru

Re: Broken Build on Mac OS X

2005-12-02 Thread Andre Smith
ion 'grub_cmd_help': grub2/commands/help.c:42: error: nested functions are not supported on MacOSX grub2/commands/help.c:65: error: nested functions are not supported on MacOSX make: *** [grub_emu-commands_help.o] Error 1 On Dec 2, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On De

Re: Broken Build on Mac OS X

2005-12-02 Thread andre-smith
bject: Re: Broken Build on Mac OS X > > On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Andre Smith wrote: > > > I would like to report a broken build on Mac OS X using cross compiler > > powerpc-elf version 4.0.2 using binutils 2.16.1 and newlib 1.13.0. I > > get the following error messag

Broken Build on Mac OS X

2005-12-01 Thread Andre Smith
I would like to report a broken build on Mac OS X using cross compiler powerpc-elf version 4.0.2 using binutils 2.16.1 and newlib 1.13.0. I get the following error message after running configure -- host=powerpc-elf followed by a make: grub2/commands/help.c: In function 'grub_cmd_help': grub