On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:38:15 +0100 Sam Geeraerts <[email protected]> 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 -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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