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Simon Hardy 6643507ce3 build: Fix GRUB i386-pc build with Ubuntu gcc
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 <simon.hardy@itdev.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
2020-03-31 12:17:02 +02:00
asm-tests asm-tests/i386-pc: Check that movl is 5 bytes. 2016-09-28 20:31:04 +03:00
conf gettext: Restore patches to po/Makefile.in.in 2020-03-10 21:17:54 +01:00
docs docs: Document notes on LVM cache booting 2020-03-31 12:01:41 +02:00
grub-core efi/tpm: Fix memory leak in grub_tpm1/2_log_event() 2020-03-31 12:16:32 +02:00
include efi: Fix the type of grub_efi_status_t 2020-03-10 21:42:31 +01:00
po po: Fix replacement of %m in sed programs 2020-03-10 21:32:09 +01:00
tests syslinux: Fix syslinux_test in out-of-tree builds 2019-03-05 10:27:53 +01:00
themes/starfield Starfield theme. 2012-02-23 17:21:38 +01:00
unicode * unicode: Import Unicode 6.0 data. 2011-12-25 16:17:25 +01:00
util misc: Make grub_strtol() "end" pointers have safer const qualifiers 2020-02-28 12:41:29 +01:00
.gitattributes gitattributes: Mark po/exclude.pot as binary so git won't try to diff nonprintables 2019-09-23 13:17:15 +02:00
.gitignore gnulib: Upgrade Gnulib and switch to bootstrap tool 2019-03-05 10:48:12 +01:00
.travis.yml travis: Add Travis CI config file 2019-02-25 14:02:06 +01:00
AUTHORS 2005-09-03 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2005-09-03 16:54:27 +00:00
BUGS * BUGS: New file. 2011-01-11 00:06:01 +01:00
COPYING 2007-07-22 Yoshinori K. Okuji <okuji@enbug.org> 2007-07-21 23:32:33 +00:00
ChangeLog-2015 Autogenerate ChangeLog from git changelog. 2015-01-24 17:29:50 +01:00
INSTALL gnulib: Upgrade Gnulib and switch to bootstrap tool 2019-03-05 10:48:12 +01:00
Makefile.am Makefile: Make libgrub.pp depend on config-util.h 2020-03-10 21:39:53 +01:00
Makefile.util.def grub-editenv: Make grub-editenv chase symlinks including those across devices 2020-02-18 15:16:02 +01:00
NEWS Release 2.04 2019-07-04 15:57:30 +02:00
README README: Remove dead link to the wiki 2015-11-06 04:31:23 +01:00
THANKS 2009-12-11 Robert Millan <rmh.grub@aybabtu.com> 2009-12-11 22:44:47 +00:00
TODO TODO: Remove obsolete link 2016-02-12 17:51:52 +01:00
acinclude.m4 Fix -nopie/-nopie check. 2017-01-30 19:38:55 +01:00
autogen.sh POTFILES: Don't include gnulib in grub.pot 2019-03-26 15:04:17 +01:00
bootstrap gnulib: Upgrade Gnulib and switch to bootstrap tool 2019-03-05 10:48:12 +01:00
bootstrap.conf gettext: Restore patches to po/Makefile.in.in 2020-03-10 21:17:54 +01:00
config.h.in Remove libgcc dependency. 2015-03-03 20:50:37 +01:00
configure.ac build: Fix option to explicitly disable memory debugging 2020-03-10 21:56:39 +01:00
coreboot.cfg * coreboot.cfg: Add missing file. 2013-11-20 00:52:23 +01:00
geninit.sh automake commit without merge history 2010-05-06 11:34:04 +05:30
gentpl.py build: Fix GRUB i386-pc build with Ubuntu gcc 2020-03-31 12:17:02 +02:00
linguas.sh linguas: Don't skip ko.po. 2017-02-04 00:06:57 +01:00

README

This is GRUB 2, the second version of the GRand Unified Bootloader.
GRUB 2 is rewritten from scratch to make GNU GRUB cleaner, safer, more
robust, more powerful, and more portable.

See the file NEWS for a description of recent changes to GRUB 2.

See the file INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install the
GRUB 2 data and program files.

Please visit the official web page of GRUB 2, for more information.
The URL is <http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html>.

More extensive documentation is available in the Info manual,
accessible using 'info grub' after building and installing GRUB 2.

There are a number of important user-visible differences from the
first version of GRUB, now known as GRUB Legacy. For a summary, please
see:

  info grub Introduction 'Changes from GRUB Legacy'