grub reiser4 won't compile

grub reiser4 won't compile

[Chris Wakefield]

Greetings all.

I'm attempting to setup Reiser4 on a partition and I've got as far as trying 
to compiling grub and I've run into a wall.

It's a Reiser4 patched grub source from:
ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/LATEST_PATCH
anyways, I run configure and I get:

"....checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu...

.........................

........"checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: 
C compiler cannot create executables".

config log error is:
......."configure:2416: $? = 1
configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h.  */" ......

This is happening only with reiser4 grub, as I'm able to compile kernels and 
who knows what else .. it's just this source only.
Do I require a different source or do I have to compile reiser4 grub in a 32 
bit chroot environment?

Can someone give me some ideas as to what it is needed here?

Thanks,
Chris W.

Re: grub reiser4 won't compile

[Vitaly Fertman]

On Thursday 28 April 2005 09:26, Chris Wakefield wrote:
> Greetings all.
> 
> I'm attempting to setup Reiser4 on a partition and I've got as far as trying 
> to compiling grub and I've run into a wall.
> 
> It's a Reiser4 patched grub source from:
> ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/LATEST_PATCH

so is it reiser4 patched grub from LATEST_GRUB or 
the reiser4 grub patch from LATEST_PATCH?

> anyways, I run configure and I get:
> 
> "....checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu...
> 
> .........................
> 
> ........"checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: 
> C compiler cannot create executables".
> 
> config log error is:
> ......."configure:2416: $? = 1
> configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h.  */" ......
> 
> This is happening only with reiser4 grub, as I'm able to compile kernels and 
> who knows what else .. it's just this source only.
> Do I require a different source or do I have to compile reiser4 grub in a 32 
> bit chroot environment?

what does the plain grub-0.96 without reiser4 patch say?

-- 
Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman

Re: grub reiser4 won't compile

[Chris Wakefield]

Hi Vitaly.

Thanks for your reply.

I tried every reasonable combo:
apt-get source grub ... patched it with LATEST_PATCH ...that wouldn't compile 
with or without the patch,
grub-0.95,
grub-0.96,
all the same result.
I wasn't sure what to do with "LATEST_GRUB", it seemed to be a binary for some 
reason.

I'm stumped.

Thanks,
Chris W.

On April 28, 2005 05:06 am, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> On Thursday 28 April 2005 09:26, Chris Wakefield wrote:
> > Greetings all.
> >
> > I'm attempting to setup Reiser4 on a partition and I've got as far as
> > trying to compiling grub and I've run into a wall.
> >
> > It's a Reiser4 patched grub source from:
> > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/LATEST_PATCH
>
> so is it reiser4 patched grub from LATEST_GRUB or
> the reiser4 grub patch from LATEST_PATCH?
>
> > anyways, I run configure and I get:
> >
> > "....checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu...
> >
> > .........................
> >
> > ........"checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:
> > error: C compiler cannot create executables".
> >
> > config log error is:
> > ......."configure:2416: $? = 1
> > configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h.  */" ......
> >
> > This is happening only with reiser4 grub, as I'm able to compile kernels
> > and who knows what else .. it's just this source only.
> > Do I require a different source or do I have to compile reiser4 grub in a
> > 32 bit chroot environment?
>
> what does the plain grub-0.96 without reiser4 patch say?

Re: grub reiser4 won't compile

[Vitaly Fertman]

On Friday 29 April 2005 13:11, Chris Wakefield wrote:
> Hi Vitaly.
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> I tried every reasonable combo:
> apt-get source grub ... patched it with LATEST_PATCH ...that wouldn't compile 
> with or without the patch,
> grub-0.95,
> grub-0.96,

if the grub-0.96 without reiser4 patch does not want to be configured,
you should probably ask the grub guys about it:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-bugs.en.html


> all the same result.
> I wasn't sure what to do with "LATEST_GRUB", it seemed to be a binary for some 
> reason.

this is the rebuilt grub package with the applied reiser4 patch, it points to
ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/grub-0.96-reiser4-20040130.tar.gz

 
> I'm stumped.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris W.
> 
> On April 28, 2005 05:06 am, Vitaly Fertman wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 April 2005 09:26, Chris Wakefield wrote:
> > > Greetings all.
> > >
> > > I'm attempting to setup Reiser4 on a partition and I've got as far as
> > > trying to compiling grub and I've run into a wall.
> > >
> > > It's a Reiser4 patched grub source from:
> > > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/LATEST_PATCH
> >
> > so is it reiser4 patched grub from LATEST_GRUB or
> > the reiser4 grub patch from LATEST_PATCH?
> >
> > > anyways, I run configure and I get:
> > >
> > > "....checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> > > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu...
> > >
> > > .........................
> > >
> > > ........"checking for C compiler default output file name... configure:
> > > error: C compiler cannot create executables".
> > >
> > > config log error is:
> > > ......."configure:2416: $? = 1
> > > configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h.  */" ......
> > >
> > > This is happening only with reiser4 grub, as I'm able to compile kernels
> > > and who knows what else .. it's just this source only.
> > > Do I require a different source or do I have to compile reiser4 grub in a
> > > 32 bit chroot environment?
> >
> > what does the plain grub-0.96 without reiser4 patch say?
> 
> 

-- 
Thanks,
Vitaly Fertman

Re: grub reiser4 won't compile

[Hans Reiser]

Vitaly, if he is doing something with apt, that means he is probably 
using debian, which means they may have broken things, which means you 
need to look into it and fix things and report to me on it.

Re: grub reiser4 won't compile

[Sander Sweers]

On 02/05/05, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> Vitaly, if he is doing something with apt, that means he is probably
> using debian, which means they may have broken things, which means you
> need to look into it and fix things and report to me on it.

AFAIK grub does not work in 64bit. It might work compiling with
CFLAGS="-march=i386 -m32" LDFLAGS="-m32" passed to configure/gcc but i
am not sure (you need a multilib enviroment). Or as you already said
in a 32bit chroot.

More info on compiling in 32bit on AMD64 can be found here
http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/08/msg00084.html.

Sander
-- 
After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing,
after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.

Spock, "Amok Time"
stardate 3372.7

Re: grub reiser4 won't compile

[Chris Wakefield]

On May 2, 2005 08:17 am, Sander Sweers wrote:
> On 02/05/05, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> > Vitaly, if he is doing something with apt, that means he is probably
> > using debian, which means they may have broken things, which means you
> > need to look into it and fix things and report to me on it.
>
> AFAIK grub does not work in 64bit. It might work compiling with
> CFLAGS="-march=i386 -m32" LDFLAGS="-m32" passed to configure/gcc but i
> am not sure (you need a multilib enviroment). Or as you already said
> in a 32bit chroot.
>
> More info on compiling in 32bit on AMD64 can be found here
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/08/msg00084.html.
>
> Sander

ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives|grep grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   733102 2005-01-17 16:40 
grub_0.95+cvs20040624-13_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   733396 2005-02-05 07:18 
grub_0.95+cvs20040624-14_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   733610 2005-02-18 16:18 
grub_0.95+cvs20040624-15_amd64.deb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   733800 2005-03-21 00:41 
grub_0.95+cvs20040624-16_amd64.deb

This is odd.   I run pure64 amd64 and these packages indicate that they are 64 
bit?

Chris W.

Re: grub reiser4 won't compile

[Sander Sweers]

On 02/05/05, Chris Wakefield <c_wakefield@shaw.ca> wrote:
> ls -l /var/cache/apt/archives|grep grub
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   733102 2005-01-17 16:40
> grub_0.95+cvs20040624-13_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   733396 2005-02-05 07:18
> grub_0.95+cvs20040624-14_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   733610 2005-02-18 16:18
> grub_0.95+cvs20040624-15_amd64.deb
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   733800 2005-03-21 00:41
> grub_0.95+cvs20040624-16_amd64.deb
> 
> This is odd.   I run pure64 amd64 and these packages indicate that they are 64
> bit?
> 
> Chris W.
On gentoo if you have a multilib environment it will be built with
-m32 (just checked) and if you built it with -m64 i get the same error
as you. Gentoo has a special static 32bit package if you do not run
multilib, my guess is that Debian does the same with those packages.

Sander

-- 
After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing,
after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.

Spock, "Amok Time"
stardate 3372.7

Re: grub reiser4 won't compile

[Hans Reiser]

Sander Sweers wrote:

>On 02/05/05, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Vitaly, if he is doing something with apt, that means he is probably
>>using debian, which means they may have broken things, which means you
>>need to look into it and fix things and report to me on it.
>>    
>>
>
>AFAIK grub does not work in 64bit. It might work compiling with
>CFLAGS="-march=i386 -m32" LDFLAGS="-m32" passed to configure/gcc but i
>am not sure (you need a multilib enviroment). Or as you already said
>in a 32bit chroot.
>
>More info on compiling in 32bit on AMD64 can be found here
>http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/08/msg00084.html.
>
>Sander
>  
>
Yes, Vitaly was right, sorry about that.