Re: Compiling grub2 on *BSD?

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:30:51PM -0600, jakllsch@kollasch.net wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 09:56:50AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:11:48PM -0800, walt wrote:
> > > > What is the problem initially?
> > > 
> > > kernel_img-kern_device.o: In function `grub_device_iterate':
> > > ../kern/device.c:84: undefined reference to `__enable_execute_stack'
> > > 
> > > That's defined in libgcc so I add -lgcc to the link flags:
> > > 
> > > /usr/lib/libgcc.a(_enable_execute_stack.o): In function
> > > `__enable_execute_stack':
> > > _enable_execute_stack.c:(.text+0x40): undefined reference to `__sysctl'
> > > _enable_execute_stack.c:(.text+0x6f): undefined reference to `mprotect'
> > > 
> > > Both of those symbols are defined in libc.a, so I included that, too.
> > > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Do you see this line in ./configure ?
> > 
> >   checking whether `gcc' accepts `-fstack-protector'... yes
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Apparently -fno-stack-protector doesn't actually work the way
> I/we would expect.
> 
> But, I'm surprised that this doesn't affect the building
> of NetBSD's own 'stand' code.

Maybe we need another flag?  Could you check the link command in NetBSD's
kernel ?

-- 
Robert Millan

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