[bug #27349] various build problems with grub2 and x86_64

[John Taylor]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27349>

                 Summary: various build problems with grub2 and x86_64
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: pi00100100
            Submitted on: Sun 30 Aug 2009 07:44:45 PM GMT
                Category: Compilation
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: SVN
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

I'm trying to cross-compile grub2 SVN revision 2550 with the following
configure arguments: --prefix=/usr --build=i686-unknown-linux-gnu
--host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (host system
is i686 while target system is x86_64). I get the following error message:

configure: error: platform "pc" is not supported for target CPU "x86_64"

I then added the --with-platform=efi configure argument (my Intel motherboard
seems to support UEFI). Now I get the following error message:

../grub2-2550/util/grub-mkfont.c:28:22: error: ft2build.h No such file or
directory

So I also added the --disable-grub-mkfont configure argument. Again, I get a
different error message:

help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./grub-mkimage
help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./grub-mkelfimage
help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./grub-fstest
help2man: can't get `--help' info from ./grub-editenv
make: *** [install-local] Error 126

I don't know a workaround for this last message, but I think it is due to the
fact that the host system is 32-bit while the target system is 64-bit, so the
target binaries cannot be executed.




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