Hello, While upgrading GRUB from 1.97.2 to 1.98 in Nixpkgs(-libre) [0, 1], I noticed the following regressions:
- GNU gettext is now required to build the ‘.mo’ files but not checked
for at configure time. When it’s not available, ‘make install’
fails because the ‘.mo’ files weren’t built.
- tests/util/grub-*.in refer to /bin/bash, which does not necessarily
exist (it doesn’t exist on NixOS GNU/Linux). Instead, it should
either use ‘AC_PATH_PROG([BASH], [bash])’ and substitute �...@bash@’,
or use /bin/sh if no Bash-specific features are used.
- tests/util/grub-shell.in refers to ‘qemu-system-i386’, but
apparently it should always be ‘qemu-system-x86_64’, even on i686
(that’s at least the case with QEMU 0.12.3).
- Again, QEMU is a new dependency and it should be checked for at
configure time. The tests requiring QEMU could be skipped when it’s
not available.
- When running the tests, I was getting test failures and messages
like this:
chardev: opening backend "stdio" failed
qemu: could not open serial device 'stdio': Invalid argument
I found the thread at
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg22775.html>.
Adding the ‘-nodefaults’ option fixed the problem for me (again QEMU
0.12.3.)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
[0] http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/
[1] http://hydra.nixos.org/job/nixpkgs/trunk/grub2
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