From: Viswesh S <viswesh_vichu@yahoo.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: configure fail for grub
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 18:37:46 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <454781.23896.qm@web31605.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1228783956.18346.5.camel@dv
----- Original Message ----
> From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
> To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, 9 December, 2008 6:22:36 AM
> Subject: RE: configure fail for grub
>
> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 07:39 -0500, James Shewey wrote:
>
> > When I configure grub-1.96, I got following error message:
> >
> > configure: error: neither start nor _start is defined
> >
> > Could anybody give me some ideas for it?
>
> This happens if tools for 32-bit compilation are not available.
> Compiling on x86_64 defaults to 32-bit PC platform. It's possible to
> compile for 64-bit EFI platform by specifying:
>
> ./configure --with-platform=efi
>
> --
> Regards,
> Pavel Roskin
>
>
Hi,
As mentioned above, it is because of the 32 bit compilation tools not available.I have faced the same problem in which my compiler was gcc-4.2.1 and to compile this I installed gcc-3.4.3 and made the CC point to the proper compiler and it worked.
Viswesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-08 12:39 configure fail for grub James Shewey
2008-12-08 17:29 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-12-08 17:34 ` James Shewey
2008-12-09 0:52 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-12-09 2:37 ` Viswesh S [this message]
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2008-12-09 3:27 James Shewey
2008-12-08 8:50 Alan Zheng
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