Re: [Qemu-devel] signrom.sh and MinGW

[Filip Navara]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Sebastian Herbszt<address@hidden> wrote:
> v0.11.0-rc0-182-g28e738d/pc-bios/optionrom/signrom.sh multiboot.raw
> multiboot.bin
> v0.11.0-rc0-182-g28e738d/pc-bios/optionrom/signrom.sh: * 512 - 1 : syntax
> error: operand expected (error token is "* 512 - 1 ")
> make[1]: *** [multiboot.bin] Error 1
> rm multiboot.raw multiboot.img multiboot.o
> make: *** [romsubdir-optionrom] Error 2
>
> pc-bios/optionrom/signrom.sh has
>
> # find out the file size
> x=`dd if="$1" bs=1 count=1 skip=2 2>/dev/null | od -t u1 -A n`
> #size=`expr $x \* 512 - 1`
> size=$(( $x * 512 - 1 ))
>
> but it seems (at least my) MinGW doesn't include "dd".
>

I have already reported that on the mailing list earlier.
Workaround/fix is to download MSYS coreutils from the MinGW download
page.

Best regards,
Filip Navara