On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:45:45PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>
> I'm somewhat worried that these complaints are delayed by more than a year
I noticed by chance. We were talking about something else on IRC, when
Bean mentioned that objcopy has bug when converting from PE to ELF. Later
he poi
Robert Millan wrote:
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:29:18PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
Committing code against the wish of maintainers should not be permitted.
Those who do it should lose commit access. They are welcome to
contribute, but their patches will need to be committed by others.
Robert Millan wrote:
I don't understand what you mean about a "Linux cross-compiler":
- Why a compiler? AFAICT, the problem here is assembly/linkage
rather than compiling. binutils should suffice.
Unfortunately this is not true:
Some assembly language directives generated by gcc d
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:29:18PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 11:53 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>
> > I personally think this is a hassle for nothing: we already have a
> > working cygwin toolchain. While I acknowledge it's not perfect it
> > works. And I pr
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:33:23AM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> >
> > There has to be more to it. I know you were using GRUB on Cygwin
> > before that commit. Was this kludge being used since the beginning?
>
> I'm using GRUB on Cygwin since 'somewhat' before I announced the first
> patch
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 11:53 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> I personally think this is a hassle for nothing: we already have a
> working cygwin toolchain. While I acknowledge it's not perfect it
> works. And I propose not to touch it until it gives any maintainance
> or technical pro
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Christian
Franke wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:06:46PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>> >
>> > Since ~r1584, util/grub-* could be build and run on Cygwin. Commit
>> > r1726 added support to build kernel and modules on Cygwin.
>> >
>>
>
Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:06:46PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> >
> > Since ~r1584, util/grub-* could be build and run on Cygwin. Commit
> > r1726 added support to build kernel and modules on Cygwin.
> >
>
> There has to be more to it. I know you were using GRUB on Cy
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:06:46PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:27:58PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>>
First of all, I'm worried that we have discussions to decide things and
they
are later forgotten or ignored. Bean, ple
Robert Millan wrote:
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:27:58PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
First of all, I'm worried that we have discussions to decide things and they
are later forgotten or ignored. Bean, please can you provide some explanation
on what happened?
Also, I think this commit shoul
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 08:27:58PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>> First of all, I'm worried that we have discussions to decide things and they
>> are later forgotten or ignored. Bean, please can you provide some
>> explanation
>> on what happened?
>>
>> Also, I think this commit should be reve
Hi Robert,
Robert Millan wrote:
On a recent discussion on IRC, Bean pointed out that grub-pe2elf is essentially
a workaround for a bug in objcopy.
It is essentially a limitation of BFD: The object format specific
backends are apparently not implemented such that conversion between
differ
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