On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Leo Famulari <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:56:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> Leo Famulari <[email protected]> skribis:
> >> 
> >> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> >> >> FAIL: grub_func_test
> >> >
> >> > I saved the failed build tree to get at this test's log. The full
> >> > contents of the log are this line:
> >> >
> >> > Functional test failure:
> >> 
> >> Nice.  What does upstream say?  :-)
> >
> > I'm working on this today; I'll send them a bug report soon.
> >
> > I'm going to try skipping the tests to see if this GRUB can boot a
> > system, and I'm also going to try running the tests on the latest commit
> > from the upstream Git repo.
> 
> I believe this is now fixed, by commit
> 0a2a70539bdf42d59c9be5fcbc88a1c14743303a on core-updates.
> 
> The problem turned out to be that GRUB's build system couldn't find
> 'freetype', because 'pkg-config' was missing from the build environment.
> This disabled font generation, as I discovered when I booted into a
> core-updates system and found that GRUB was unable to find its font.
> 
> After I fixed that problem, I was pleased to find that the test suite
> started succeeding again as well :)

Wow, I never would have guessed this was the issue!

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