backward compatibility problem with grub

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Mon Apr 25 17:24:25 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:11 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

FC3 is GCC3, while rawhide is currently being targetted for FC4, which
is GCC4.  There are unfortunate differences.

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