From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1ESf29-0001cF-3H for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:20:57 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESf27-0001ZX-Ub for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:20:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ESf24-0001Uy-2a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:20:55 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ESf23-0001Uv-U6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:20:51 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ESf23-0002lO-S5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:20:52 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D74083FA for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:20:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11642-07 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:20:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F2E98398 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:20:49 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E8DFC046 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:20:49 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <200510152015.33096.okuji@enbug.org> <4352ACF1.8050908@gmail.com> <874q7hb28r.fsf@student.han.nl> <435565A8.40706@gmail.com> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:20:48 +0200 In-Reply-To: <435565A8.40706@gmail.com> (Joe Ciccone's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:14:16 -0400") Message-ID: <87r7aggidb.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: GRUB 1.91 is released 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: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:20:56 -0000 Joe Ciccone writes: >>>I am curious if support for x86_64 still uses -m32 in the build process, >>>and if so, why? >>> >>> >>My question: why not? >> >> > I just created a simply dummy program and tried to compile it with a > 64bit only compiler, cross-compiling or not, the build of grub fails > with -m32, just as the build of this simple program fails with -m32. Now > that you have an example of that happens in a Pure64bit enviorment with > only 64 bit libs available to the compiler. Do you have any ideas on > what can be done to make grub compile and work under these conditions? > > lfs:~$ echo "int main () {}" > dummy.c > lfs:~$ $CC -m32 dummy.c Right, but this is not what I am talking about. GRUB is not linked to any library so your test is not relevant. -- Marco