On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 04:03:13PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Recent versions of binutils no longer support a.out or COFF as > output formats on SPARC. Since GRUB used a.out on SPARC as the > executable format for the stage2 loader, the build currently > fails with: > > objcopy:boot.img: invalid bfd target > make[5]: *** [Makefile:45616: boot.img] Error 1 > make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... > objcopy:cdboot.img: invalid bfd target > > We have decided that the easiest solution to fix this problem is > by just writing the a.out header for the stage2 binary ourselves.
Thanks for the patch! I've applied it to master. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]