Re: powerpc/sparc problems

[rubisher <rubisher@scarlet.be>]

Bean wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de> wrote:
>> David are you still there?
>> And also anyone who has access to a powerpc machine (and experience)?
>>
>> In Debian we the problem that the `__ashldi3' and `__bswapsi2' symbols
>> can't be found in the grub-ieee1275 build on powerpc and also sparc.
>>
>> Jordi already noticed this with the 1.96+20090721-4 IIRC and now other
>> people noticed this with 1.97~beta3
>> AFAICS there wasn't anything relevant changed on our side, so seems to
>> be a gcc issue.
>>
>> `__ashldi3' is listed in include/grub/powerpc/libgcc.h and `__bswapsi2'
>> in the sparc64 header.
>> But something has now changed that this isn't enough anymore, at least
>> in Debian.
>>
>> We used gcc 4.3.3 at the time Jordi noticed this and now switched to
>> gcc-4.4.1.
>>
>> And David we still have this sparc bug open, which I forwared to
>> grub-devel:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538030
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Try my branch, it includes the libgcc functions in grub instead of
> rely on external library. It builds and run properly for
> powerpc-ieee1275 last time I check.
> 
Hello Mr bean ;<)

I reach to grab your git tree but even a fresh pull still failed to build from src as follow:
grub_emu-normal_main.o: In function `uitree_append':
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:169: undefined reference to `grub_uitree_root'
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:169: undefined reference to `grub_uitree_root'
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:169: undefined reference to `grub_uitree_find'
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:179: undefined reference to `grub_uitree_create_node'
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:184: undefined reference to `grub_uitree_set_prop'
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:185: undefined reference to `grub_uitree_set_prop'
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:186: undefined reference to `grub_tree_add_child'
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:172: undefined reference to `grub_uitree_create_node'
/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/normal/main.c:175: undefined reference to `grub_tree_add_child'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [grub-emu] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/Sources/jso/Grub2.deb/grub2-git091021/build/grub-common'
make: *** [build/grub-common] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

Any idea/advise?

Tia,
	J.