On Friday 29 April 2005 13:11, Chris Wakefield wrote: > Hi Vitaly. > > Thanks for your reply. > > I tried every reasonable combo: > apt-get source grub ... patched it with LATEST_PATCH ...that wouldn't compile > with or without the patch, > grub-0.95, > grub-0.96,
if the grub-0.96 without reiser4 patch does not want to be configured, you should probably ask the grub guys about it: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-bugs.en.html > all the same result. > I wasn't sure what to do with "LATEST_GRUB", it seemed to be a binary for > some > reason. this is the rebuilt grub package with the applied reiser4 patch, it points to ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/grub-0.96-reiser4-20040130.tar.gz > I'm stumped. > > Thanks, > Chris W. > > On April 28, 2005 05:06 am, Vitaly Fertman wrote: > > On Thursday 28 April 2005 09:26, Chris Wakefield wrote: > > > Greetings all. > > > > > > I'm attempting to setup Reiser4 on a partition and I've got as far as > > > trying to compiling grub and I've run into a wall. > > > > > > It's a Reiser4 patched grub source from: > > > ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/grub/LATEST_PATCH > > > > so is it reiser4 patched grub from LATEST_GRUB or > > the reiser4 grub patch from LATEST_PATCH? > > > > > anyways, I run configure and I get: > > > > > > "....checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > > > checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu... > > > > > > ......................... > > > > > > ........"checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: > > > error: C compiler cannot create executables". > > > > > > config log error is: > > > ......."configure:2416: $? = 1 > > > configure: failed program was: | /* confdefs.h. */" ...... > > > > > > This is happening only with reiser4 grub, as I'm able to compile kernels > > > and who knows what else .. it's just this source only. > > > Do I require a different source or do I have to compile reiser4 grub in a > > > 32 bit chroot environment? > > > > what does the plain grub-0.96 without reiser4 patch say? > > -- Thanks, Vitaly Fertman
