Re: Next release?

[Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:55 +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>
>   
>> Thanks for considering Cygwin support for the next release.
>>
>> The first (and last) grub package released in the Cygwin distribution 
>> was based on grub codebase from 2008-03-26. My latest reasonably tested 
>> merge is ~2 month old. If desired, I can merge & test all remaining 
>> changes to current HEAD and post the patches for review soon.
>>     
>
> I'm sorry, I forgot that story.  It may be a more radical change than I
> expected.  Anyway, let's see what remains to be done.
>
>   

Here is a older diffstat:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2008-04/msg00013.html

The changes for util/biosdisk.c, util/getroot.c, and util/mkdevicemap.c 
are already checked in.


>> BTW:
>> - Supporting "Ltext0" would not help much for Cygwin, because a linker 
>> script is required due to the lack of "ld -N" support.
>>     
>
> We may want to use linker scripts on all platforms for uniformity.
>
>   
Yes, more flexible. And the tests for _start etc. are no longer necessary.


>> - Cygwin liblzo2* packages were released 1 week before the grub package :-)
>>     
>
> That means the development package too?  That's good.
>
>   

Yes, liblzo2-devel too.

Christian