[ipxe-devel] iPXE build failure on Fedora 19 (rawhide)

[Robin Smidsrød]

On 16.05.2013 16:45, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I was wondering if you had any success in resolving this problem
> with builds under gcc 4.8.0 ?
> 
> I just checked latest ipxe GIT master and see the same problem
> still
> 
> gcc  -DARCH=i386 -DPLATFORM=pcbios -march=i386 -fomit-frame-pointer -fstrength-reduce -falign-jumps=1 -falign-loops=1 -falign-functions=1 -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -mregparm=3 -mrtd -freg-struct-return -m32 -fshort-wchar -Ui386 -Ulinux -DNVALGRIND -Iinclude -I. -Iarch/x86/include -Iarch/i386/include -Iarch/i386/include/pcbios -Os -g -ffreestanding -Wall -W -Wformat-nonliteral   -fno-stack-protector  -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm -fno-exceptions  -fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -Wno-address  -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -include include/compiler.h   -DOBJECT=pxe_call -c arch/i386/interface/pxe/pxe_call.c -o bin/pxe_call.o 
> arch/i386/interface/pxe/pxe_call.c: In function ‘pxe_start_nbp’:
> arch/i386/interface/pxe/pxe_call.c:292:1: error: bp cannot be used in asm here
>  }
>  ^
> make: *** [bin/pxe_call.o] Error 1

You might want to try out this workaround patch by Christian Hesse
posted little over a month ago.

http://www.mail-archive.com/ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org/msg02309.html

Some people claim success with it.

-- Robin