backward compatibility problem with grub
D. Hugh Redelmeier
hugh at mimosa.com
Mon Apr 25 16:11:45 UTC 2005
Background:
I tripped over a grub bug in Fedora Core 3 on x86_64 (actually,
probably any arch with NX support). It was suggested that I fetch
and build the rawhide version of grub to see if the problem has been
fixed. See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147392
It turns out that the latest version of the grub SRPM will not build
on FC3. This seems very unfortunate. I would consider it a bug. Is
this known? Intended? A good thing?
Details:
I fetched
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/SRPMS/grub-0.95-12.src.rpm
Trying to build it on FC3 x86_64 + updates failed with errors:
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler
cannot create executables
Reading config.log, I see instead a couple of compiler errors. Both suggest
that a different version of gcc was expected:
configure:2396: gcc -V </dev/null >&5
gcc: `-V' option must have argument
configure:2425: gcc -m32 -Os -g -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign
-Werror -Wno-shadow -static conftest.c >&5
cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-Wno-pointer-sign"
I got the same errors in FC3 i386 + updates.
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