Re: grub-1.97

[Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>]

Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 2009/10/28 Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com>:

>> 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.
>>
> 
> I guess it's meant to be used like this:
> 
> tar -jxvf grub-version.tar.bz2
> cd grub-version
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure./configure --prefix=/usr \
             --sysconfdir=/etc \
             --disable-largefile     \
             --disable-grub-emu      \
             --disable-grub-emu-usb  \
             --disable-grub-fstest   \
             --disable-efiemu --prefix=/some_prefix --options
> make
> make install

Yes, that is exactly what we are doing.  Right now the configure line is

./configure --prefix=/usr           \
             --sysconfdir=/etc       \
             --disable-largefile     \
             --disable-grub-emu      \
             --disable-grub-emu-usb  \
             --disable-grub-fstest   \
             --disable-efiemu

> Now you have 2k files in the build directory but the ones that are
> useful can be found under /some_prefix

Right and 1200 of them are *.lst files, many of which have 30+ character 
filenames.  Doing an ls puts everything in one column.  Even if I expand my 
terminal to 269 characters, I only get 4 columns of files.  It's just hard to 
navigate.

> You can find the files installed under /some_prefix in the build
> directory so you can use them directly as well.

Yes, but you have to do `ls -l|grep ^d` just to find out what the directories are.

> Many of the object files are replicated numerous times because of the
> way grub links its modules. This may be addressed at later time, there
> were some patches for simplifying this process.

Since there is only one Makefile, I could take a shot at creating a patch to 
address this problem.  Would you be interested in such a patch?

   -- Bruce