On Sun, January 8, 2017 15:46, Kevin Buckley wrote: > On 7 January 2017 at 18:11, Kevin Buckley <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am trying to build with the latest of the hint's non-BLFS packages, >> given that they've moved on from Dan McGhee's versions, vis: >> >> >> dosfstools-3.0.26.tar.gz -> dosfstools-3.0.28.tar.gz >> efivar-devel-0.12.tar.gz -> efivar-devel-30.tar.gz >> efibootmgr-devel-efibootmgr-0.9.0.tar.gz -> >> efibootmgr-devel-efibootmgr-0.12.tar.gz >> >> The later dosfstools builds OK, but I have just hit an issue with >> efivars, see, >> >> https://github.com/rhinstaller/efivar/issues/78 >> >> so I'll await the resolution of that before looking to fully refresh the >> hint. >> >> For anyone following this for now, be aware that: ... > > Found a couple of other things out, so again, just to have the info > "on the list" > ahead of looking to update the hint. > > 3) The efivar-devel and efibootmgr-devel packages I nitiall found were > from > a personal repo belonging to one of the rhlinstaller Git project, and the > "proper" sources are found under that repo. > > https://github.com/rhinstaller/efibootmgr/ > > https://github.com/rhinstaller/efivar/ > > 4) The updated, compared to the hint, efibootmgr v0.12 didn't build > against the > efivar v30 because a lot changed in the latter. > > efibootmgr v14 did build against efivar v30, and despite the efivar test > failing (still awaiting some feedback on that) I was able to get > efibootmgr > to interrogate my UEFI settings > > 5) The hint's build dependency section doesn't mention the Unifont stuff > that does get a mention further down but again the version has moved on > from Dan's list > > unifont-7.0.05 -> unifont-9.0.06 > > 6) Hopefully (latest version no rendered as I write) you spotted the > gramatical > error in my reworking of the note, vis: > >> ... >> can be booted using the LFS system's Grub without such an addition, if >> UEFI Mode >> and Secure Boot capabilities, in the host system's BIOS, need to be >> turned off. > > which doesn't make sense and should be > > can be booted using the LFS system's Grub without such an addition, if > UEFI Mode > and Secure Boot capabilities, in the host system's BIOS, are turned off. > -- Both efibootmgr "14" and "0.12" specifically asks for efivar 0.19 (see INSTALL file) Is "14" the latest version? I don't understand git. Alex
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