this weekend i decided to upgrade my grub to version 0.95.20040823. the compile failed with the message below. i attempted to build the 0.94-r2 version and got the same error, and finally tried to emerge the same version i actually currently had installed and still it errored out. i grabbed the grub 0.96 source from gnu.org and tried to compile it manually and it died at the same spot. figuring i had a system issue, i've wiped my drive and am just now finishing the install process, and guess what. ;] fun fun fun. this new install is from a 2005.0 stage 3 tarball (the original was 2004.2), and i haven't upgraded/updated any packages yet - just been following the handbook. also, the odd thing is i was just working on grub maybe a week or so ago, patching it to pass maketest, and everything worked fine at the time. let me know if you need any other information. =] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -aDtv =grub-0.94-r1 2. emerge -aDtv =grub-0.94-r2 3. emerge -aDtv =grub-0.95.20040823 Actual Results: here is the error for 0.95: --------------------------- gcc -fno-builtin -nostdinc -DSUPPORT_SERIAL=1 -DSUPPORT_HERCULES=1 -DSUPPORT_GRAPHICS=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -Wundef -DNDEBUG -minline-all-stringops -c -o start_exec-start.o `test -f 'start.S' || echo './'`start.S start.S: Assembler messages: start.S:399: Error: missing ')' start.S:399: Warning: rest of line ignored; first ignored character is `K' make[3]: *** [start_exec-start.o] Error 1 make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.95.20040823/work/grub-0.95.20040823/stage2' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.95.20040823/work/grub-0.95.20040823/stage2' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.95.20040823/work/grub-0.95.20040823' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.95.20040823 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 99, Exitcode 2 !!! making regular stuff !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. ------------------------- but each version gives the exact same error: start.S:399: Error: missing ')' Expected Results: happy dance current system: root ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-lxnay3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-lxnay3 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.10 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/unix/Linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 readline tcpd"
fixed. for the solution, see bug 73499. sorry bout the dupe, but talk about obscure. i would have never figured that one out. as the reporter mentioned, unsetting BLOCK_SIZE did solve the problem. it should be trivial to work around this in the ebuild - i'll get a set of patches done for the versions in the tree and hopefully help move 0.96 along a bit. ;]
np *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73499 ***
