Hello.
I'm compiling grub on a Debian/Slink system, and I get an error
(after ./configure). The error doesn't happen with Debian/Potato, so
I think it's a problem of "as" version.
This is the error:
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/develop/grub/cvs/stage1'
egcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused
-Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -O2 -fno-builtin -nostdinc -g -c stage1.S
/tmp/cc3Mmvwi.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/cc3Mmvwi.s:571: Error: attempt to .org/.space backwards? (-2)
/tmp/cc3Mmvwi.s:571: Internal error!
Assertion failure in write_contents at ../../gas/write.c line 1106.
Please report this bug.
The same command line run on Potato gives no error. The two stage1.s
(generated by -save-temps) are identical. So it's definitely an "as"
issue.
slink% as --version
GNU assembler 2.9.1
This assembler was configured for a target of `i486-linux'.
potato% as --version
GNU assembler 2.9.5
This assembler was configured for a target of `i386-linux'.
I don't know what exact version changed the behaviour, but I think it
would be better to check for version numbers at "configure" time
rather than spitting a runtime "Please report this bug".
Thanks for your good work and your attention
/alessandro
