Problem when calling non-existing functions on Open Firmware

2012-07-19 Thread Thomas Huth
Hi all! There is a problem in Grub on IEEE1275 when it tries to call certain functions via "call-method" - it does not check the "catch_result" in some places to test whether the target function really exists, continues with bad data, finally leading to some obscure crashes. We've hit this prob

grub-2.00 build problem (gets)

2012-07-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I ran into a minor problem building GRUB-2.00 with glibc-2.16.0. I had to run a simple command to bypass the problem: sed -i -e '/gets is a security/d' grub-core/gnulib/stdio.in.h This may already be fixed, but I thought I'd post just in case. This has also been showing up in several other p

Re: grub-2.00 build problem (gets)

2012-07-19 Thread Martin Jansa
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 04:08:29PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I ran into a minor problem building GRUB-2.00 with glibc-2.16.0. I had > to run a simple command to bypass the problem: > > sed -i -e '/gets is a security/d' grub-core/gnulib/stdio.in.h > > This may already be fixed, but I thought I