Re: [Xen-devel] [BUG] Xen-4.8.0 efi/buildid.o: file not recognized/Ambiguous

["John L. Poole" <jlpoole56@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/7/2016 8:51 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 07.12.16 at 16:57, <jlpoole56@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I did the the following:
> >
> > wget https://downloads.xenproject.org/release/xen/4.8.0/xen-4.8.0.tar.gz
> > tar -xvzf xen-4.8.0.tar.gz
> > cd /usr/local/src/xen-4.8.0
> > ./configure
> >
> > The config.log is available at: http://napadata.net/paste/view/9e7faf3d
> >
> >
> > make
> >
> >      ...
> >       mv -f .efi.lds.d.new .efi.lds.d
> >       gcc -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> > -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -g -o efi/mkreloc
> > efi/mkreloc.c
> >       ld -mi386pep --subsystem=10 --image-base=0xffff82d080000000
> > --stack=0,0 --heap=0,0 --strip-debug --section-alignment=0x200000
> > --file-alignment=0x20 --major-image-version=4 --minor-image-version=8
> > --major-os-version=2 --minor-os-version=0 --major-subsystem-version=2
> > --minor-subsystem-version=0 --build-id=sha1 -T efi.lds -N prelink-efi.o
> > efi/relocs-dummy.o /usr/local/src/xen-4.8.0/xen/common/symbols-dummy.o
> > efi/buildid.o -o
> > /usr/local/src/xen-4.8.0/xen/.xen.efi.0xffff82d080000000.0 &&   ld
> > -mi386pep --subsystem=10 --image-base=0xffff82d0c0000000 --stack=0,0
> > --heap=0,0 --strip-debug --section-alignment=0x200000
> > --file-alignment=0x20 --major-image-version=4 --minor-image-version=8
> > --major-os-version=2 --minor-os-version=0 --major-subsystem-version=2
> > --minor-subsystem-version=0 --build-id=sha1 -T efi.lds -N prelink-efi.o
> > efi/relocs-dummy.o /usr/local/src/xen-4.8.0/xen/common/symbols-dummy.o
> > efi/buildid.o -o
> > /usr/local/src/xen-4.8.0/xen/.xen.efi.0xffff82d0c0000000.0 && :
> >       efi/buildid.o: file not recognized: File format is ambiguous
> >       efi/buildid.o: matching formats: coff-x86-64 pe-x86-64
> Hmm, at the first glance I'd call this a binutils bug: When talking
> about an object file, it's necessarily COFF and never PE. But I'd
> have to study their logic first to be certain. What binutils version
> are you using, and what's the target list e.g. objcopy lists at the
> end of its --help output?
>
> Jan
Jan -

1) bintuils version: 2.25.1-r1

    jlpoole@zeta /boot/efi $ eix binutils -I
    [I] sys-devel/binutils
         Available versions:
         ...
         Installed versions:  2.25.1-r1(2.25.1)(06:01:52 AM 
11/12/2016)(cxx multitarget nls zlib -static-libs -test -vanilla)
         Homepage:            https://sourceware.org/binutils/
         Description:         Tools necessary to build programs

2) target list from the output of "objcopy --help" is located at:
     http://napadata.net/paste/view/6ebf2472

Thank you,

John

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