On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 08:56:59PM +0200, Yves Blusseau wrote:
Bad news grub not compiled on a GCC 4.4.1 from MacPorts:
gcc-mp-4.4 -Iloader/i386 -I./loader/i386 -I. -I./include -I./
include -
Wall -W -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -g -Os -falign-jumps=1 -falign-
loops=1
-falign-functions=1 -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm -DAPPLE_CC=1 -m32
-fno-stack-protector -mno-stack-arg-probe -fno-builtin -mrtd -
mregparm=3
-m32 -MD -c -o linux_mod-loader_i386_linux.o loader/i386/linux.c
20:16loader/i386/linux.c: In function 'grub_linux_boot':
20:16loader/i386/linux.c:546: error: can't find a register in class
'BREG' while reloading 'asm'
20:16loader/i386/linux.c:546: error: 'asm' operand has impossible
constraints
20:16make: * [linux_mod-loader_i386_linux.o] Error 1
MacPorts don't use specific patch to build gcc so i think the
behavior
is coded somewhere in the gcc source code.
I guess that's the implicit -fPIC you mentioned on IRC?
Does -fno-PIC help?