From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1FlEcy-0007Fb-5x for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:32:00 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlEcv-0007ER-Mh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:31:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FlEcu-0007E0-Uq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:31:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FlEcu-0007Do-GQ for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:31:56 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FlEio-0002Rl-Gq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 20:38:02 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054503CACA35A for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 04:06:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E573CACA359 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 04:06:10 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 02:31:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <447CB449.9080901@nic.fi> <86r72aetee.fsf@baz.foobar-qux.org> <1149026404.7177.103.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1149026404.7177.103.camel@basalt.austin.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605310231.49399.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.488507, version=0.17.2 Subject: Re: [patch] Fix for building correct code on i386-pc (CVS-HEAD) X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 00:31:58 -0000 On Wednesday 31 May 2006 00:00, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 22:59 -0500, Harley D. Eades III wrote: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2006-05/msg00106.html > > "host" and "target" are unclear to me here. For example, grub-emu would > be compiled for the "host", but grub itself would be for the "target"? > When would you ever want to build things differently like that? This is one of the requested features for GRUB. In GRUB Legacy, some group developed GRUB on Sparc, but for PC by cross-compiling (actually, this was Alcatel). It is a good thing that you can install GRUB for an architecture on another. Okuji