Hello I have two questions Q1. Have you a .spec file to compile this patched version of grub ? Q2. I am attempting to compile grub-0.97-reiser4-20050808.tar from [1] and get the following what needs to be installed to fix the error ? Thanks Glenn # ./configure configure: loading site script /usr/share/site/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3 checking for ranlib... ranlib checking whether optimization for size works... yes checking whether gcc has -fno-stack-protector... yes checking whether -Wundef works... yes checking whether -falign-loops works... yes checking for objcopy... objcopy checking if C symbols get an underscore after compilation... no checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... no configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils [1] http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/linux-reiserfs/reiser4progs/grub-0.97-reiser4... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org