Re: Next release?

[Christian Franke]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 06:55:24PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>   
> > The first (and last) grub package released in the Cygwin distribution 
> > was based on grub codebase from 2008-03-26. My latest reasonably tested 
> > merge is ~2 month old. If desired, I can merge & test all remaining 
> > changes to current HEAD and post the patches for review soon.
> >     
>
> Great!
>
> As for the loader issue, did you find a way to generate images in ELF format
> from the Cygwin system?
>
>   

Yes of course - the Cygwin grub package compiles OOTB and works :-)

objcopy is used to convert PE to ELF:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00238.html

Due to issues in BFD, objcopy produces ELF with invalid pc-relative 
relocation. This is compensated by a hack in the loader:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00232.html

Christian