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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] can anyone build grub mipsel?
From: |
Karl Goetz |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnewsense-dev] can anyone build grub mipsel? |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:58:23 +1030 |
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:38:15 +0100
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> Karl Goetz schreef:
> > hi all,
> > I'm trying to build a grub packages (again....) and its getting to
> > a mawk stage and bombing out (sits there forever). can someone else
> > try and build grub from bzr or the archive and see if it succeeds?
>
> Just to make it clear: the idea is to get rid of our own version of
> grub and use something from upstream. [1]
Thanks for doing such in depth testing.
> Things I tried:
> - Build grub2-1.96 from the source in the archive. That stops with:
> make: Nothing to be done for 'build'.
> make: Nothing to be done for 'binary'.
>
> - Build grub1-1.98 from the source in Debian sid. Just
> 'dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us' complains "Unmet build dependencies:
> gcc-4.4". 'dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -d' stops later with:
> checking for gcc... gcc-4.4
> checking whether the C compiler works... no
>
> - Build grub from bzr trunk. That seems to work. It showed 1 error at
> the end about texinfo, but it also said "Ignored". No complaints
> about gcc. Running make again said "nothing to be done" without
> errors. I was not feeling so adventurous as to actually install it.
>
> [1] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?28931
This is all a bit bizare. I don't really know where to move from here.
Contact debian grub maintainers? grub upstream? thoughts anyone?
kk
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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
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