objcopy problem

**sam111** · 04-11-2011

I am using this version of objcopy

Code:

objcopy --version
GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20.1-system.20100303
Copyright 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.

I am trying to compile grub-0.9.7

so I do ./configure which gives me

Code:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether optimization for size works... yes
checking whether gcc has -fno-stack-protector... yes
checking whether -Wundef works... yes
checking whether -falign-loops works... yes
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking if C symbols get an underscore after compilation... no
checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... no
configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils

As you can see
configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils

I am wondering how I can fix this and beable to compile grub using make.

My grub directory has this in it

Code:

acinclude.m4  config.guess  COPYING	lib	       netboot	TODO
aclocal.m4    config.h.in   depcomp	MAINTENANCE    NEWS	util
AUTHORS       config.log    docs	Makefile.am    README
BUGS	      config.sub    grub	Makefile.in    stage1
ChangeLog     configure     INSTALL	missing        stage2
compile       configure.ac  install-sh	mkinstalldirs  THANKS

I really don't want to download a whole new binutls since I develope using the ones I have so I don't want to mess any of those things up.
But if I need to download a single objcopy I would be willing to do that the problem is I don't know where or what one would fix the issue?

Obviously when I issue the make after issueing the ./configure command I get

Code:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Since their is no Makefile in these directories only
Makefile.am
Makefile.in

Wondering if their is some trick like running mkinstalldirs or something to get around this mess.

**reed9** · 04-11-2011

GRUB-Legacy is no longer being developed, so if there's an issue, it probably won't get fixed. Is there a reason you're trying to build GRUB? What distro are you using?

**sam111** · 04-12-2011

well first of all I am just curious why the error and what version of binutls or objcopy do I need if I wanted to fix this problem? (a direct link would be great)

Then if I had that. I could temporarily set my path to
PATH = newobjcopydirectory:$PATH

If I am correct in assuming that linux traverses the path environment variable from left to right. And the left most directory's objcopy will be used instead of any other one's to the right of it.
Correct me if I am wrong?

**reed9** · 04-12-2011

Well, I'm not a programmer, so I can only take a guess.

I found this from Ubuntu Karmic (I assume you're using Ubuntu based on the GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20.1-system.20100303 bit you posted).

* objcopy-absolute.diff: Backport from grub2 (Lubomir Kundrak): take only
.text section into account, as newer toolchains generate unique build
ids.

So they appear to have backported some code from GRUB2 to get GRUB working with the build toolchain in Karmic.

I can say using Arch with binutils 2.21, the vanilla GRUB built fine for me.

Code:

objcopy --version
GNU objcopy (GNU Binutils) 2.21.0.20110209

**sam111** · 04-12-2011

well, forget building it.
Is their a place where I can download an already built grub.
That I can use to boot my cd/dvd and harddisk/usb drives.

I was downloading from the ftp site alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/
Would their be any version that any body knows that won't have the

Code:

checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... no
configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils

problem and would let me build it.

Or if that is not possible a pre-built grub would be nice to download.

**reed9** · 04-12-2011

You didn't confirm whether you were using Ubuntu or not, but pretty much all distros have GRUB available in their repositories.

**sam111** · 04-12-2011

yes I am using ubuntu
did a search and cann't find stage1 or stage2 files.
I looked in /boot/grub doesn't contain them or menu.lst

This is the main reason for downloading grub in the first place. The problem is I cann't make it.

so if their is a pre-built version of these grub that would be great.

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