From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1N2xos-0001c3-W8 for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:27 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2xop-0001bi-S5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:23 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N2xok-0001Ya-C6 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:22 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51876 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N2xok-0001YX-67 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:18 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f194.google.com ([209.85.211.194]:44741) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2xoj-0003zm-Oj for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:17 -0400 Received: by ywh32 with SMTP id 32so291675ywh.14 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:59:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7s6W3WcecXt7CHdlTdL8ur/vEbZXNszCZQUPhFv1ST4=; b=Kfxy2Pad56jxlydq9H3YBXQnzkbt37bYTHFhG8359mnfWzOK1TZgmRuZDk2kgFdXeD ArN8ZMU1tF9re8PZPEUQGAKAQGpp7Q4f2BEYCMY8vQ/Q/qvCmoyDkt2jRqTvwjY8XL2n stYt1ku0Iq+wm2QZxAaAUum1YNOZNflrDt5D0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=tgQrcPFJV8mCZvk9PWlVQbrv20UUSKrwuIiR5g+gxYUK7q6yhvxX2KbRnF31tYBDkr V5A3oFFXjqmUNGhAD3YU365h5n5FKlGYCgJl/jHL5H7RzeTOFfHBNmFhT4W9BN6GZtKL UPtNlYZlUgrC7gLXRHV1BHcAZ+YOD3ER/rLxc= Received: by 10.90.128.9 with SMTP id a9mr1132395agd.117.1256695156691; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.75? (cpe-66-69-97-231.satx.res.rr.com [66.69.97.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 35sm238678yxh.15.2009.10.27.18.59.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:59:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AE7A573.4030002@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:59:15 -0500 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: grub-1.97 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: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:59:24 -0000 I am putting grub2 into the Linux From Scratch book and have built/tested it and it works quite well for us. Thank you. I do have a question. After building a package, we like to test it for those packages that have tests built in. When I tried `make test`, I got an error about missing m2c. I then went to the Debian repository and built m2c. Now I get the error: bdubbs@core2:/usr/src/grub/grub-1.97$ make test m2c -o test -e test test.mod m2c: unknown flag `-e' make: *** [test] Error 1 What version of m2c are you using and where is it available? Is this a valid way to run a regression test for grub-1.97? I'd also like to make a comment. It may be useful if you split up the build into subdirectories by component. When I extracted the tarball, there were 57 files/directories in the top of the build tree. After configure it was 64. So far so good. However, after make it was over 2400 files, many with very long file names. This makes it almost impossible to navigate form the command line, even on a very big screen. If you split it up, you could also shorten the filenames. I would think that would be an advantage to encourage programmers to read the code and contribute to the project. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org