Build failed on Arch Linux with binutils 2.29.1-1 and GCC 7.2.0-3

[NeoChen1024]

I cloned this Git repository, and tried to build it on Arch Linux.
I always got this error message during running configure:
"configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils"
below is the full log.
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neo_chen^NeoLinuxWorkstation ~/TEMP/grup4dos (0) >>$ ./configure

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking whether optimization for size works... yes
checking whether gcc has -fno-stack-protector... yes
checking whether gcc has -fno-reorder-functions... yes
checking whether -Wundef works... yes
checking whether -falign-loops works... yes
checking whether linker accepts `--build-id=none'... yes
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking if C symbols get an underscore after compilation... no
checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... no
configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils
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[chenall]

apt-get install gcc-multilib

[NeoChen1024]

Arch Linux doesn't use APT!

[NeoChen1024]

And, on x86-64, Arch Linux merged gcc-multilib and gcc

[QianNangong]

According to the upstream grub2 code base, replace ${OBJCOPY-objcopy} -O binary conftest.exec conftest with ${OBJCOPY-objcopy} --only-section=.text -O binary conftest.exec conftest in configure should work.

[chuckwagoncomputing]

This didn't work for me. Any other things to try?

[victordmontero]

According to the upstream grub2 code base, replace ${OBJCOPY-objcopy} -O binary conftest.exec conftest with ${OBJCOPY-objcopy} --only-section=.text -O binary conftest.exec conftest in configure should work.

This worked for me but in Linux Mint 19