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Hi,

On Sat, 2026-02-07 at 10:30 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> starting with version 2.14-1, grub2 fails to build from source on powerpc [1]:
> 
> /usr/bin/powerpc-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: appendedsig.module: in function 
> `grub_mod_init':
> /build/reproducible-path/grub2-2.14/obj/grub-emu/grub-core/../../../grub-core/commands/appendedsig/appendedsig.c:1615:(.text+0x2adc):
>  undefined reference to `grub_pks_get_keystore'
> /usr/bin/powerpc-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: appendedsig.module: in function 
> `create_dbs_from_pks':
> /build/reproducible-path/grub2-2.14/obj/grub-emu/grub-core/../../../grub-core/commands/appendedsig/appendedsig.c:1400:(.text+0x2c64):
>  undefined reference to `grub_pks_free_data'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Since I initially suspected an upstream problem, I tried building grub2 from
> git which surprisingly worked fine [2]. Thus, the problem must be with the 
> Debian
> package itself, either one of the patches or how the package is configured in
> debian/rules.

It's actually an upstream bug and can be reproduced when building grub-emu 
instead
of grub-ieee1275 with "--with-platform=emu". I have already reported the issue 
to
the corresponding upstream author [1].

Adrian

> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2026-02/msg00077.html

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