Re: cross-compiling grub-1.98 i686 to x86_64: gentrigtables

[Eric Herman]

On 05/07/2011 06:00 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> It seems that make builds "gentrigtables" (which is an ELF 64-bit LSB
> executable, naturally) then attempts to execute "./gentrigtables>
> trigtables.c"

A patch for this seems to exist:

http://git.pokylinux.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-intel/tree/common/recipes-bsp/grub/grub1.98/gentrigtables-compile-fix.patch

And referenced here:
https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/poky/2011-February/003980.html

With this note from Tom Zanussi:

> Fixes [BUG #711].
>
> gentrigtables was being build as a 64-bit binary which wouldn't run on
> the build machine.  grub-mkfont was also causing compile failures, add
> dependency on libfreetype for that.

However, I believe this patch only works if the BUILD_CC variable is set 
in the environment before the build is run .... Just thinking out loud, 
it seems to me like finding the host system's native compiler should be 
a part of the configure process.

Cheers,
 -Eric

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