Debian Bug report logs - #244498
absolute objcopy not working on amd64?

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kurt Roeckx <Q@ping.be>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: absolute objcopy not working on amd64?

Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 20:01:09 +0200

Package: binutils
Version: 2.14.90.0.7-5

When grub's configure script runs it looks to the output of
objcopy -O binary and complains that 2 files linked with an other
address results in a different file.  It seems that on amd64 this
isn't working properly.

When running configure it says:
configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy;
upgrade your binutils

in acinclude.m4:
dnl Some versions of `objcopy -O binary' vary their output depending
dnl on the link address.
....

Running the test program mannually, once linked at 2000 once at
8000 shows this difference (hexdump of the binary file):
 0000000 4855 e589 04c7 0025 0010 0200 0000 c900
 0000010 00c3 0000 0000 0000 0014 0000 0000 0000
 0000020 0001 7801 0c10 0807 0190 0000 0000 0000
-0000030 001c 0000 001c 0000 2000 0000 0000 0000
+0000030 001c 0000 001c 0000 8000 0000 0000 0000
 0000040 0011 0000 0000 0000 0e41 8610 4302 060d
 0000050

It shows the difference are the addresses linked at.


Kurt

Message #10 received at 244498@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>

To: 244498@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Absolute objcopy not working on amd64?

Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 13:07:39 +0100

Hi,

There doesn't seem to have been any progress on this?

Would if help if I forward this to upstream myself?


Kurt

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