Problems compiling/running Grub 1.97.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.2 on intel MacBook Pro

[Colin Howarth]

Hi,

I've had a look at the archives, but it's not clear to me which problems are 
current.

I do:

./configure --with-platform=efi --target=i386

(i386 instead of x86_64) because the FreeType libs (installed in 
/usr/local/fink/lib/freetype219 are 32 bit libraries.



Compilation nevertheless fails with:

ld: warning: in /usr/local/fink/lib/libfreetype.dylib, file is not of required 
architecture

unless I insert liberal sprinklings of  " -arch i386 -m32 " in all the CCFLAGS 
and LDFLAGS (in the Makefile).




Then, when compilation succeeds, actually running

./grub-mkimage -d . -o grub.efi part_gpt hfsplus fat ext2 normal sh chain boot 
configfile linux

also fails due to the "unknown" symbol _memcmp.

memcmp IS in stdlib. But one of the flags set during the ./configure is " 
-nostdlib "


If I remove all "-nostdlib" from ./configure I get:

checking whether target compiler is working... no
configure: error: cannot compile for the target



gcc is version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)




Is there currently a working version for Mac OS X 10.6.2?


Any pointers much appreciated!


colin