Bug 246827

Problem also exists with grub-0.97-13 in RHEL5 

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #151834 +++

Description of problem:  The grub file compiled when the src.rpm is built on a
x86_64 system cannot execute since it is being dynamically linked incorrectly. 
When grub is run the error:

[paris@paris x86_64]$ grub
bash: /sbin/grub: /usr/lib/libc.so.1: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

is seen.  Readelf -a shows a dynamic section (which is wrong since we want
static linking) and also shows in the program header section:

Program Headers:
  Type           Offset   VirtAddr   PhysAddr   FileSiz MemSiz  Flg Align
  PHDR           0x000034 0x08048034 0x08048034 0x000e0 0x000e0 R E 0x4
  INTERP         0x000114 0x08048114 0x08048114 0x00013 0x00013 R   0x1
      [Requesting program interpreter: /usr/lib/libc.so.1]
  LOAD           0x000000 0x08048000 0x08048000 0x2afec 0x2afec R E 0x1000
  LOAD           0x02b000 0x08073000 0x08073000 0x06ff8 0x12d20 RW  0x1000
  DYNAMIC        0x02b014 0x08073014 0x08073014 0x000c8 0x000c8 RW  0x4
  NOTE           0x000128 0x08048128 0x08048128 0x00020 0x00020 R   0x4
  GNU_STACK      0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 RWE 0x4

Where it is trying to use libc.so.1.  If this were properly dynamically linked
it would use ld-linux-x86-64.so.2.  But shouldn't be doing this at all....

The problem seems to stem from the line where we actually create the grub binary
which reads:

gcc  -fwritable-strings -m32 -Os -g -static   -o grub  main.o asmstub.o
../stage2/libgrub.a  ../lib/libcommon.a -Wl,-Bstatic -lncurses -Wl,-Bdynamic

Notice that we throw the -Wl,-Bdynamic on the end of the line.  This little bit
of code comes from the grub-0.95-staticcurses.patch which changes the autoconf
to include this.  The patch has:

-  AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, wgetch, [GRUB_LIBS="$GRUB_LIBS -lncurses"
+  AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, wgetch, [GRUB_LIBS="$GRUB_LIBS -Wl,-Bstatic -lncurses
-Wl,-Bdynamic"

All of the .o files were created correctly and statically, but the last binary
is allowed this bit of dynamic linking.  I hacked both the spec file and the
patch to get this to work.  

My hack made the spec file have:
%ifarch x86_64
CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -static" ; export CFLAGS
DYNAMIC=static; export DYNAMIC
%else
DYNAMIC=dynamic; export DYNAMIC
%endif

And the patch to have (in both places):
-  AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, wgetch, [GRUB_LIBS="$GRUB_LIBS -lncurses"
+  AC_CHECK_LIB(ncurses, wgetch, [GRUB_LIBS="$GRUB_LIBS -Wl,-Bstatic -lncurses
-Wl,-B$DYNAMIC"

This way autoconf will let make decide on the fly what to put after the static
ncurses linking.

How reproducible:  Always for me


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Download src rpm
2.  Run rpmbuild --rebuild src.rpm (or some varient)
3.  Install the rpm
4.  Try to run /sbin/grub
  
Actual results:
[paris@paris x86_64]$ grub
bash: /sbin/grub: /usr/lib/libc.so.1: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory

Expected results:
Grub Starts

-- Additional comment from tao on 2007-06-04 11:59 EST --
So if you try to build grub from src.rpm on a x86_64 machine with minimum
installation + few needed pkgs;

rpm
rpm-build
rpm-python
ncurses-devel
automake
autoconf
gcc
cpp
libgcc x86, x86_64


x86
glibc
glibc-common
glibc-headers
glibc-kernheaders
glibc

Then, it would build properly...

But if you build it with everything install or...
adding X devel pkgs, gnome devel pkgs or KDE devel pkgs, it would build it
properly, but if you look at /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/grub-0.95/grub/grub,
then it would show something like;


BUILD/grub-0.95/grub/grub: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version
1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked

If you use dynamically linked grub, as soon as you install, you will get
following error;
sbin/grub-install: /sbin/grub: /usr/lib/libc.so.1: bad ELF interpreter: No
such file or directory
/sbin/grub-install: /sbin/grub: /usr/lib/libc.so.1: bad ELF interpreter:
No such file or directory
/sbin/grub-install: /sbin/grub: /usr/lib/libc.so.1: bad ELF interpreter:
No such file or directory
/sbin/grub-install: /sbin/grub: /usr/lib/libc.so.1: bad ELF interpreter:
No such file or directory
/sbin/grub-install: /sbin/grub: /usr/lib/libc.so.1: bad ELF interpreter:
No such file or directory
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly.

Regards,
David Joo



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 issue 121154

-- Additional comment from markmc on 2007-07-05 06:35 EST --
Okay, here's the deal:

  - We build grub in a build root with only ncurses-devel.x86_64 installed

  - Since we're building a 32 bit binary, the configure script doesn't
    find the ncurses library:

      checking for wgetch in -lncurses... no
      checking for wgetch in -lcurses... no

  - To verify that it's not built with ncurses, try running the "clear"
    command in /sbin/grub ... compare to i386

  - If you try and re-build grub with ncurses-devel.i386 installed, then
    it creates a borked dynamically linked /sbin/grub due to the -Wl,-Bdynamic