From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Serge Leschinsky Subject: error: PIC register 'ebx' clobbered in 'asm' Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:45:47 -0800 Message-ID: <494AB67B.9090906@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f11.google.com ([209.85.221.11]:60646 "EHLO mail-qy0-f11.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751947AbYLRUqJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:46:09 -0500 Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so667996qyk.13 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:46:08 -0800 (PST) Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, I tried to compile kvm and got the following error: "PIC register 'ebx' clobbered in 'asm'" Could you please explain me how to fix it? kvm-81, linux-2.6.27.9, gcc -v: i686-pc-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.2 make[1]: Entering directory `/data/build/tmp/kvm-81/user' gcc -D__i386__ -I /data/build/tmp/kvm-81/kernel/include -m32 -O1 -MMD -MF test/x86/.vmexit.d -g -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -fno-stack-protector -I ../libkvm -std=gnu99 -ffreestanding -I test/lib -I test/lib/x86 -c -o test/x86/vmexit.o test/x86/vmexit.c test/x86/vmexit.c: In function 'main': test/x86/vmexit.c:30: warning: implicit declaration of function 'printf' test/x86/vmexit.c:28: error: PIC register 'ebx' clobbered in 'asm' make[1]: *** [test/x86/vmexit.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/build/tmp/kvm-81/user' make: *** [user] Error 2 Thanks -- Serge