[coreboot] Fwd: mkelfImage

[Martin-Éric Racine]

On 2/19/08, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de> wrote:
> * Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk at iki.fi> [080215 19:34]:
> >  Thankfully, most of them are easily fixed:
> >
> >  * News should be called ChangeLog and include the name of whoever made
> >  each change.
> >  * Each source file (c, h, S) must include proper copyright notice and
> >  credits at the top.
> >  * The build fails unless it is ./configure'd twice, because it misses
> >  Makefile.conf.
> >  * Makefile.conf would preferably be replaced by more traditional
> >  Makefile.am and Mafefile.in to really be portable.
> >  * config.log and various other files that should be cleaned before
> >  shipping were found in the archive for mkelfImage 2.7 on the lnxi FTP
> >  server.
> >  * The filename of the archive should be all lowercase.
>
> Is there a patch available for these issues? We pulled mkelfImage into
> svn now, so we could fix it there.

Good to know. I can patch a few of these issues, but not all of them,
as I'm not exactly an autotools guru. I'll pull from SVN and get
started.

> >  However, a more serious problem is that it fails to compile using
> >  recent GCC and glibc6.
>
> any details? I had no problems compiling it with
> GNU C Library stable release version 2.7 (20071106)
> gcc version 4.3.0 20080131 (experimental) [trunk revision 131976] (SUSE Linux)

See the other reply for a sample log of this failure.

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Martin-Éric Racine
http://q-funk.iki.fi