From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1KIrh7-0004Ej-6W for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:04:21 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIrh5-0004CL-Ne for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:04:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KIrh5-0004Ba-Bk for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:04:19 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56397 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KIrh5-0004BO-3Q for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:04:19 -0400 Received: from ns39764.ovh.net ([91.121.25.85]:55188 helo=nexedi.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIrh4-00034k-OS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:04:18 -0400 Received: from [10.8.0.46] (unknown [10.8.0.46]) by nexedi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F7493DC75 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:09:56 +0200 (CEST) From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" Organization: enbug.org To: The development of GRUB 2 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:04:17 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <1216040584.9995.52.camel@dv> In-Reply-To: <1216040584.9995.52.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807152304.17448.okuji@enbug.org> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Next release? 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: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:04:19 -0000 On Monday 14 July 2008 15:03:04 Pavel Roskin wrote: > Now that we have lzma compression, we should probably consider making > another release in a week or two. > > Before it happens, I'd like to add a configure test for working target > compiler, so that users of pure x86_64 machines are not surprised by a > message that "start" and "_start" are not found. > > By the way, that check could be generalized to allow more symbols, such > as "Ltext0" on Cygwin. It would be great if GRUB 1.97 compiled on > Cygwin out-of-box. Cygwin lacked some lzo development files, but we > don't need them anymore. > > All warnings for i386-pc have been fixed, but perhaps I'll look at other > targets if I have time. Also, Valgrind finds some memory leaks, that we > may want to fix now. > > I hope that once GRUB 1.97 is released, we'll eliminate device.map and > reorganize the build system to make it more flexible. I am sorry, but can I ask why you want to remove device.map? Did I miss any discussion? Regards, Okuji