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Robert Millan wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 11:03:49AM +0200, Patrick Georgi wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I used cygwin to build grub2/i386-coreboot using an i386-elf cross 
>> compiler. unfortunately the test in configure only looks for the host 
>> platform and enables pe2elf in that case, even though my compiler emits 
>> ELF already.
>>
>> my workaround is to just change that test (there's no OS cyg_win), but 
>> of course that's no permanent solution.
>> Bean proposed on IRC to look if the target compiler emits PE, and enable 
>> pe2elf based on that.
>>     
>
> I have observed that grub-pe2elf is included even in native builds for ELF
> platforms.  Perhaps this is caused by the same bug?
>
>   


No, grub-pe2elf is build and installed even if is not necessary for the 
build process. This should be no problem.

Christian