From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JNcmB-0000mB-C1 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:36:59 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNcm9-0000jc-Qi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:36:57 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNcm8-0000fl-2c for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:36:57 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNcm7-0000fO-Qj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:36:55 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNcm7-0006ww-EE for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:36:55 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JNcm5-0007tr-Tr for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:36:54 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JNckF-0004mV-C8 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:34:59 +0100 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:34:59 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080208233459.GA18269@thorin> References: <474754C9.5050400@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <474754C9.5050400@t-online.de> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] Build on Cygwin X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:36:58 -0000 On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:31:37PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote: > This patch enables build on Cygwin. It handles the issues introduced by > the non-ELF object format. > > A linker script replaces the unsupported -N option. PE modules are > converted to ELF. ELF-only assembly language features are removed. > > Please note that this patch produces a conflict in genmk.rb unless the > "Handle C symbols with leading underscore" is applied first. > > This is the last patch derived from "[PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin". I don't recall which thread this is, but I think the last time we discussed this the conclussion was that the simplest solution was to enable a build option in binutils to obtain ELF support? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)