On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 03:57:17PM +0000, Bertrand Marquis wrote: > Hi Roger > > > On 10 Feb 2026, at 16:55, Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 03:44:33PM +0000, Bertrand Marquis wrote: > >> Hi Roger, > >> > >>> On 10 Feb 2026, at 16:11, Roger Pau Monne <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> GNU assembler will consider '/' as the start of comment marker on some > >>> platforms. This is incorrect with Xen's usage, which does use '/' in > >>> assembly files as a mathematical operator. > >>> > >>> The behavior of the assembler can be altered by passing the --divide > >>> option; unconditionally pass this option when available to force the > >>> expected behavior. > >> > >> This is solving the issue and I can build for arm with what and further > >> for x86 on mac os but it fails on check-endbr.sh: > >> > >> /bin/sh ../tools/check-endbr.sh xen-syms > >> stat: illegal option -- c > > > > Yeah, I know. I've fixed the stat issue, but there's a further one > > about an illegal bit sequence in grep. I'm looking into that. > > LC_ALL=C grep is fixing that one on my side
I haven't tested that one yet, but yes, might be a way to solve. Would you like to send the fix for grep? > with that and stat -c replaced with wc -c < xx I can fully compile x86 on Mac > os. Yeah, the problem with using wc is that you have to read the file. I prefer $(($(du <file> |cut -w -f1) << 9)) because that avoids reading the actual data to count. Thanks, Roger.
