Re: Building on the AMD64

[Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:17:04PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote:
> What I didn't do is testing the result on an AMD64 box, I will do that
> later (it means rebooting my desktop, which I prefer not to do that
> often...).  There are some warnings on the AMD64 that do not show up
> on the PC.  I have included all warnings in this email.  Especially
> the warnings about the differ in signedness confuses me, I hope
> someone else knows where it comes from and how to solve it.

The grub_str* functions are taking 'char *' arguments, but in some
cases in the code they are given 'usigned char *' for example. 'char'
is not guaranteed to be signed or usigned on a given architecture, so
for strings it should not be specified.

> 2005-09-20  Marco Gerards  <mgerards@xs4all.nl>

...

> 	* conf/i386-pc.rmk (COMMON_CFLAGS): Add `-m32'.
> 	(COMMON_LDFLAGS): New variable.
> 	(kernel_img_LDFLAGS): Include `COMMON_FLAGS'.
> 	(_chain_mod_LDFLAGS, fshelp_mod_LDFLAGS, fat_mod_LDFLAGS,

This should end with ')'.

regards,
guillem