What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. use this build script http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46752 2. configure failed.

error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils

But, in fact, my binutils is brand new,

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? compile OK

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? grub4dos-chenall svn r203 binutils-multilib 2.21.1-1 (archlinux package) mingw32-binutils 2.21-1 (archlinux package)

Please provide any additional information below.

Sorry but you might have to solve this problem by your self.

I build it successfully under SliTaz with gcc 4.5.2 and binutils 2.21.

I also recommend you to compile this way:

./configure --enable-preset-menu=preset_menu.lst make

could you explain more about "GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils"?

ArchLinux's gcc 4.6.1

Sorry I can't. The build problem should be similar to that of grub legacy.

gcc 4.6.x is ok. The problem should be somewhere in the system, e.g., lack of some development packages.

Try google for the error message.

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/grub/trunk/grub-0.97-ldflags-objcopy-remove-build-id.patch should solve thee problem. This error is due to the build-id feature introduced in gcc 4.6 (and the corresponding binutils/objcopy). The full patch is required since "with build-id" objcopy creates large-sized binaries in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc dir.

Here is the solution, I've tried and compiled on gcc 4.6.

Patch specific to grub4dos - grub4dos-ldflags-remove-build-id.patch - http://pastebin.com/icNgnFRu .

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Before you build, did you autoconf it? As change of r97 corrected the --build-id issue already. Putting --build-id switch without testing is inappropriate.