From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KRPs3-0004Eg-0O for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:10:59 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRPs0-0004Eb-Q7 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:10:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KRPrx-0004E8-21 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:10:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42922 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KRPrw-0004E0-Rf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:10:52 -0400 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]:44500) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KRPrw-0007Ep-Bi for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:10:52 -0400 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KRPkM-0007RT-5N for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:03:02 +0200 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KRPqo-0003iH-Nm for grub-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:09:42 +0200 Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:09:42 +0200 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080808110942.GA14136@thorin> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: bug: cygwin support breaks cross compiles 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 Aug 2008 11:10:57 -0000 On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:03:49AM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote: > Hi, > > I used cygwin to build grub2/i386-coreboot using an i386-elf cross > compiler. unfortunately the test in configure only looks for the host > platform and enables pe2elf in that case, even though my compiler emits > ELF already. > > my workaround is to just change that test (there's no OS cyg_win), but > of course that's no permanent solution. > Bean proposed on IRC to look if the target compiler emits PE, and enable > pe2elf based on that. I have observed that grub-pe2elf is included even in native builds for ELF platforms. Perhaps this is caused by the same bug? -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."