Re:[Patch] configure --help message for grub-emu

* Re:[Patch] configure --help message for grub-emu
@ 2010-07-14  3:23 Jason Butler
  2010-07-14 12:31 ` [Patch] " Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jason Butler @ 2010-07-14  3:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The development of GNU GRUB

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Here is a patch to have configure --help print the build instructions for grub-emu

--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: configure --help message for grub-emu
> To: "The development of GNU GRUB" <grub-devel@gnu.org>
> Received: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 2:15 AM
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 06:59:10PM
> -0700, Jason Butler wrote:
> > I want to alter the configure script so the --help
> prints the
> > instructions for building grub-emu. I saw it was asked
> a couple times
> > in #grub where to get it. I think this means altering
> the configure.ac
> > file but some open source projects generate
> configure.ac from a
> > script.
> 
> This is rare; configure.ac is normally a source file.
> 
> > Is configure.ac the correct file to alter?
> 
> Yes.
> 
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>            [cjwatson@ubuntu.com]
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--- grub-1.98/configure.ac	2010-07-13 11:14:17.122937584 -0400
+++ grub-1.98/configure.new.ac	2010-07-12 12:09:38.227813199 -0400
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ esac
 # Specify the platform (such as firmware).
 AC_ARG_WITH([platform],
             AS_HELP_STRING([--with-platform=PLATFORM],
-                           [select the host platform [[guessed]]]))
+                           [select the host platform [[guessed]] for grub-emu use emu],[26],[65]))
 
 # Guess the platform if not specified.
 if test "x$with_platform" = x; then

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