Re: building grub2 on a Mac, possible bug

[Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

В Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:00:18 -0600
Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com> пишет:

> This is on a macbookpro9,2, running Fedora 20, and I've git cloned from git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git and I'm in master branch.
> 
> $ ./configure
> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> checking target system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> 

This is normal; I get the same on openSUSE and IIRC it had always been
the case.

> The unknown seems suspicious. And at the end I see "GRUB2 will be compiled with following components:
> Platform: i386-pc" which is also wrong. 
> 

Well ... short of checking for /sys/firmware/efi, how can we know we
may need efi build?

> If I use --with-platform=efi, then at the end I get "GRUB2 will be compiled with following components:
> Platform: x86_64-efi" which is correct.
> 
> In the configure file I see this:
> # Guess the platform if not specified.
> if test "x$with_platform" = x; then
>   case "$target_cpu"-"$target_vendor" in
>     i386-apple) platform=efi ;;
>     i386-*) platform=pc ;;
>     x86_64-apple) platform=efi ;;
> 
> I guess $target_vendor isn't getting set to apple and therefore platform doesn't get set to efi.

You are running Linux, not OS X here, so $target_vendore cannot be
apple. It refers to OS vendor, not underlying hardware vendor.

> 
> 
> Chris Murphy
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