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

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 08.12.16 at 20:35, <jlpoole56@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 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?
> 
> I updated my binutils to 2.27 and I successfully completed "make". Thank 
> you.

Good to know. Is that newer version similarly configured, or is
your success simply because of the two conflicting target types
not being there at the same time?

Jan


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