Re: [PATCH] grub2 for Cygwin

[Christian Franke]

Robert Millan wrote:
> > 
> > I already have such a tool (based on objcopy with a small fix for
> > PE->ELF added). See this thread:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2007-11/msg00174.html
> 
> I understand that it may be difficult to fix this in a way the
> binutils maintainers will accept, but in your own words (from that
> thread), the alternative of fixing it in GRUB is a workaround.
> 

Yes, I will remove this hack.


> I think you should really try either fixing BFD or
> working around the problem somewhere else (the runtime ELF loader
> seems like the worst of all the options to me).
>

Fixing this in BFD is difficult, the PE and ELF backends don't care
about relocation format conversion.

To provide a self-contained package for Cygwin in the future, I will add
the reduced+fixed objcopy to my branch of the source tree and modify
Makefile accordingly.

I don't see any other option which fits into the limited time I have for
this project.

Christian