objcopy with EFI x86_64 support

Jan Beulich JBeulich@suse.com
Fri Dec 7 10:34:00 GMT 2018


>>> On 06.12.18 at 19:51, <peter.wiehe2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello binutils-list-readers,
> 
> I'm completely new to building binutils from source.
> 
> I'm on a GNU/Linux system (xubuntu 18.04 LTS 64bit).
> 
> My goal is to build a version of objcopy that can support EFI x86_64.
> 
> I've read that binutils 2.24 have that support. But I can build none of 
> the 2 snapshots for 2.24 (make fails with errors but I guess for old 
> versions the exact error messages are not interesting anymore).
> 
> And after building building 2.30.0 (with enabling all targets) I found 
> out that it has NOT efi x86-64 support.

Whatever "enabling all targets" might mean to you. Have you
tried passing --enable-targets=x86_64-pep to configure? That's
all I've needed in my builds, for quite a long time.

Jan




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