[coreboot] ADLO for buildrom

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org [mailto:coreboot-bounces at coreboot.org]
> On Behalf Of Uwe Hermann
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:09 PM
> To: Myles Watson; Jordan Crouse
> Cc: Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] ADLO for buildrom
> 
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:01:24PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > > +$(LEGACYBIOS_SRC_DIR)/out/rom.bin: $(LEGACYBIOS_STAMP_DIR)/.unpacked
> > > +	@ echo "Building legacybios..."
> > > +	@ echo $(LEGACYBIOS_SRC_DIR)
> > > +	@ make -C $(LEGACYBIOS_SRC_DIR) > $(LEGACYBIOS_BUILD_LOG) 2>&1
> >
> > Doesn't work for me.
> >
> > Adding 'AVOIDCOMBINE=1' as per legacybios README helps, but there are
> > still build failures on my box (x86, Linux):
> >
> > src/romlayout.S: Assembler messages:
> > src/romlayout.S:427: Error: attempt to .org/.space backwards? (-1)
> > src/romlayout.S:490: Fatal error: can't write out/romlayout16.o: Bad
> value
> > make[1]: *** [out/romlayout16.o] Error 1
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> OK, this is a solved problem.
> 
> The 0.2.0 version works with gcc 4.1 but not with 4.2 or 4.3.
> However, the current git version _does_ work fine with all of them,
> (well, with gcc >= 4.1 at least).
> 
> I think we should move to not wget the tarball but rather get specific git
> versions to make grabbing fixes from git easier (if no release happens
> early enough for our purposes).
> 

I'd rather not live on the edge.  Since it's a one-developer project we
should be able to talk him into releases when there's a major change and
it's stabilized, but if it's important to you we can change it.

Myles