From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSyY-00060Q-3B for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:44:18 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSyW-0005wq-6S for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:44:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSyV-0005w0-NG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:44:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSyV-0005vq-At for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:44:15 -0400 Received: from [212.85.152.101] (helo=kotoba.storever.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpSyU-0002ms-TG for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:44:15 -0400 Received: from kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com (kotoba.oasis.nexedi.com [212.85.152.101]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658E03D021D6A for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 23:49:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [??1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kotoba.storever.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3A43D015DBF for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 23:49:37 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:44:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <464F1811.7060507@georgi-clan.de> In-Reply-To: <464F1811.7060507@georgi-clan.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705191944.13081.okuji@enbug.org> X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=0.17.2 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) Subject: Re: [PATCH] make grub2 compile with libc-less crosscompilers 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: Sat, 19 May 2007 17:44:16 -0000 On Saturday 19 May 2007 17:30, Patrick Georgi wrote: > I'm now using a cross compiler with target "i386-elf", ie. no operating > system specification, which works fine so far. With grub2 I had an issue > in the configuration process as some tests try to build executables with > the target compiler that link libc (and potentially even more libs) - > which don't exist in my configuration. > As those are not necessary, I decided to modify grub2 instead of messing > around even more with the not-so-nice gcc build system. They are necessary. Otherwise, you cannot make a core image, for example. Also, without grub-emu, how do you plan to debug GRUB? BTW I can hardly believe that it is so difficult to use gnu build tools on solaris. Otherwise, how are opensolaris developers building GRUB? Okuji