With recent versions of gcc on Ubuntu a very large lzma_decompress.img file is
output. (e.g. 134479600 bytes instead of 2864.) This causes grub-mkimage to
fail with: "error: Decompressor is too big."
This seems to be caused by a section .note.gnu.property that is placed at an
offset such that objcopy needs to pad the img file with zeros.
This issue is present on:
Ubuntu 19.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 8.3.0-26ubuntu1~19.10) 8.3.0
Ubuntu 19.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 9.2.1-9ubuntu2) 9.2.1 20191008
This issue is not present on:
Ubuntu 19.10 with gcc (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~19.10) 7.5.0
RHEL 8.0 with gcc 8.3.1 20190507 (Red Hat 8.3.1-4)
The issue can be fixed by removing the section using objcopy as shown in this
patch:
Signed-off-by: Simon Hardy
---
gentpl.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gentpl.py b/gentpl.py
index 387588c05..c86550d4f 100644
--- a/gentpl.py
+++ b/gentpl.py
@@ -766,7 +766,7 @@ def image(defn, platform):
if test x$(TARGET_APPLE_LINKER) = x1; then \
$(MACHO2IMG) $< $@; \
else \
- $(TARGET_OBJCOPY) $(""" + cname(defn) + """_OBJCOPYFLAGS) --strip-unneeded
-R .note -R .comment -R .note.gnu.build-id -R .MIPS.abiflags -R .reginfo -R
.rel.dyn -R .note.gnu.gold-version -R .ARM.exidx $< $@; \
+ $(TARGET_OBJCOPY) $(""" + cname(defn) + """_OBJCOPYFLAGS) --strip-unneeded
-R .note -R .comment -R .note.gnu.build-id -R .MIPS.abiflags -R .reginfo -R
.rel.dyn -R .note.gnu.gold-version -R .note.gnu.property -R .ARM.exidx $< $@; \
fi
""")
--
2.25.0
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