Compiling Grub.

[Groman]

Hello everyone.

I just checked out the latest grub from the CVS and decided

to compile it on my Win2k machine using a mix of cygwin/djgpp.

Since cygwin doesn't support _start or start, I used the DJGPP

gcc/ld, but I used the cygwin's make(by fiddling with the environment

a bit), during configure it got to the part:

    checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses...

 

and told me that gcc could not compile C sources. I thought I messed

it up and decided to reboot into BeOS(with latest dev package and

freshly compiled binutils/gcc). Again, ran configure, and

 

    checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses...
    configure: error: objcopy cannot create binary files

Hmm, I thought. Looked at objcopy. Objcopy was normal and very recent.

I decided that my Grub got corrupted during the CVS checkout, so

I checked it out again. And tried it again on Win2k and BeOS. Same errors.

Well, I figure that Grub needs a real *Nix to compile, so I got to my friend's

OpenBSD 2.7 system. CVS checked it out. and guess what? during configure:

    checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses...

    configure: error: objcopy cannot create binary files

Again I think he had the latest binutils and everything.

 

Am I just unlucky or am I just stupid?

Thanks.