Re: Broken Build on Mac OS X

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Dec 1, 2005, at 11:00 PM, Andre Smith wrote:

> I would like to report a broken build on Mac OS X using cross compiler 
> powerpc-elf version 4.0.2 using binutils 2.16.1 and newlib 1.13.0. I 
> get the following error message after running configure 
> --host=powerpc-elf followed by a make:
>
> grub2/commands/help.c: In function 'grub_cmd_help':
> grub2/commands/help.c:42: error: nested functions are not supported on 
> MacOSX
> grub2/commands/help.c:65: error: nested functions are not supported on 
> MacOSX
> make: *** [grub_emu-commands_help.o] Error 1
> console:~/opensource/bootcode/source asmith$

You omitted the full gcc invocation, but I suspect that you are not 
actually using your powerpc-elf cross-compiler here. Could you verify 
that?

-Hollis