Andrei Warkentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 8, 2005, at 4:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> The Mac OS X GCC compiler will not build GRUB2, due static linking >> at address 0x2000; this error can be confirmed during the configure >> process. If I could build GRUB2 using the Mac OS X GCC, I would be >> able to build GRUB2 images from Mac OS X. > > The OS X ld is not the GNU linker - so sure it can't link at 0x2000, > it doesn't know what -T means. You would probably use some > permutation of the -segaddr option. Moreover, OS X uses the Mach-O > binary format, not ELF...
As I explained before only ELF can be used. >> The binary I attempted the build using the cross compiler tool >> chain powerpc-elf, would have executed on PowerPC Linux, but I >> would not build due to the nested function support being disabled >> in the Apple GCC > > I don't think I understand - you can build a bootstrap GCC targetted > at powerpc-linux, from the sources obtained via official GNU ftp. > There would not be any restrictions there... This would allow you to > build powerpc-elf binaries needed by OF. > >> >> Since the GRUB2 tools built using a Linux GCC compiler will suffice >> at the moment, I can see why the team is not overly concerned with >> this issue. If GRUB2 is going to be portable(Mac OS X), then some >> changes will be needed to accomplish this goal. > > I think it would be an interesting idea to allow the use of different > toolsets to produce the boot-time files and the system utilities. > This way, the boot-time stuff can be build as powerpc-elf, while the > OS X system utilities can be built as Mach-O (well, not 'can' - > should, there is no other way here). This is possible already. For example when I crosscompile GRUB on my x86 I get grub-mkimage as x86 tools and grubof as a PPC ELF. Perhaps it doesn't build Mach-O yet, but that is something that can be fixed. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
