Re: grub-1.97

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

richardvoigt@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Michal Suchanek wrote:

>>> 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
> 
> Not "exactly", and the difference is important.Michal suggested
> running "../configure" with a double-dot meaning parent directory.
> Your line has only a single dot, meaning current directory.  As a
> result your files are all mixed together instead of separated as
> intended.
> 
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr           \
>>            --sysconfdir=/etc       \
>>            --disable-largefile     \
>>            --disable-grub-emu      \
>>            --disable-grub-emu-usb  \
>>            --disable-grub-fstest   \
>>            --disable-efiemu

Ah yes.  Thank you Richard.  Either systems works, but using a separate build 
directory keeps all the 2400 generated files out of the main directory.  I'll 
change to that in LFS.

   -- Bruce