[FreeVMS] building 0.3.13

Fausto Saporito fausap at unina.it
Thu May 14 20:15:22 CEST 2009


Quoting Roar Thronæs <roart at nvg.ntnu.no>:

> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 05:03:49PM +0200, Fausto Saporito wrote:
>>
>> trying to have a clean build environment I installed ubuntu 9.04 with
>> gcc 4.3.3
>>
>> All is fine, but I have a error compiling grub. With gcc 3.4.6 I had
>> no prob, maybe it's a different requirement from newer version of GCC,
>> about C/C++ syntax.
>
> Make build-grub still uses gcc 3.3/3.4.
> Also consider to build grub before the kernel. (Some mixup)
> I will look more at it later.

ok. So if I understood well I have to switch to gcc 3.3/3.4 to compile  
grub, even if I use gcc 4.x to compile the other pieces.
Correct?

>
>> But why have to use this old version of GRUB?
>
> That old version was the most current release when ods2 support was made.

i see :)

Fausto




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