Re: [Gnewsense-dev] can anyone build grub mipsel?

[Karl Goetz]

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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