From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 9 14:44:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B0CC37B401 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 14:44:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust226.tnt1.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.88.226]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA03759 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 14:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA46421 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:43:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: "Ian P. Thomas" Message-Id: <200106092143.RAA46421@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Upgrading binutils To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 17:42:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After unsuccessfully getting GRUB to build from the port, I upgraded gcc to 295 in the ports and added this line into make.conf CC= gcc295 When I try to rebuild I get this error which is the same as the original configure:1816: checking whether addr32 must be in the same line as the instruct ion configure:1825: gcc295 -O -pipe -c conftest.s conftest.s: Assembler messages: conftest.s:2: Error: no such 386 instruction: `addr32' configure:1853: checking for .code16 addr32 assembler support configure:1868: gcc295 -O -pipe -c conftest.s conftest.s: Assembler messages: conftest.s:2: Error: no such 386 instruction: `addr32' I then went and tried `make CC=gcc295`. This gave me a new error that seems to explain the real problem. configure: error: GRUB requires GAS .code16 addr32 support; upgrade your binutils Without upgrading to 4.x Stable, is their a way I can upgrade binutils? Is their an alternative way to get GRUB other than me installing Debian onto some free disk space(I was going to do this anyway)? I'm currently using 3.x Stable which was just cvsupped recently(over a 56k line no less). Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message