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From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: objcopy fix (for x86_64)
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:57:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071127115735.GA15293@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mytbpw8l.fsf@xs4all.nl>

On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 01:35:22PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> 
> > This prevents objcopy from copying sections other than .text during the
> > ./configure absolute address test.  On i386, our conftest only has .text
> > and .comment (which is skipped), but on x86_64 there's an additional
> > .eh_frame section which isn't skipped unless you tell it to.
> >
> > Just one step further towards x86_64 grub ;-)
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > -- 
> > Robert Millan
> >
> > <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
> > <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
> > (as seen on /.)
> >
> >
> > 	* aclocal.m4 (grub_PROG_OBJCOPY_ABSOLUTE): Pass `--only-section=.text'
> > 	to objcopy.
> 
> Looks fine to me.

Uhm actually, I suppose one would need this argument in two separate places
(the test, and the real thing), which I missed.

I'll have a look again later.

-- 
Robert Millan

<GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call!
<DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)



  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-27 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-18 10:47 objcopy fix (for x86_64) Robert Millan
2007-11-18 12:35 ` Marco Gerards
2007-11-27 11:57   ` Robert Millan [this message]
2007-11-27 17:20     ` Pavel Roskin
2007-11-27 20:40       ` Christian Franke

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