Re: Various build failures in current bzr tree

["Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com>]

On 09.02.2012 21:50, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:33:01PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:02:04PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> I am trying to build a powerpc build using the current bzr tree, and
>>> have hit a few problems so far.
>>>
>>> I am trying to use gcc-4.4, which seems to cause issues with -Werror.
>>> I think that is gcc's fault, and --disable-werror gets around that,
>>> so not a big deal.
>>>
>>> I am hitting bug #35452 of course caused by commit r3826, but even after
>>> fixing that, commit r38xx does the same thing to another set of files.
>>>
>>> I also hit that grub_arch_dl_get_tramp_got_size isn't defined.  It appears
>>> it was cleaned up for powerpc as being unused recently, but dl.c still
>>> says that powerpc has it (along with ia64).  Removing powerpc from:
>>>
>>> #if defined (__ia64__) || defined (__powerpc__)
>>>    grub_arch_dl_get_tramp_got_size (e,&tramp,&got);
>>>
>>> seems to fix that.
>>>
>>> Should I file bug reports, or will someone just fix these?
>> grub-probe prints 'raid' rather than 'diskfilter' for the modulename to
>> use when raid is in use.
> grub-install also still (as reported about 2 years ago) tries to use
> $grub_device rather than $install_device when getting the partition
> table type.
This is not an error. (see other mail) install_device is only read from 
by firmware to locate the core.
GRUB uses it only to infer root if $grub_device and $install_device 
refer to the same disk but $install_device isn't used otherwise by GRUB 
runtime.
Please detail symptoms if any. If none, this is a non-issue.
>
> However, I did now manage to boot after fixing that.
>
> So there is a chance I can make a patch to fix grub-install soon so it
> actually works on IBM power systems.  Given I have a production machine
> and a new machine around for a few days I can experiment until it
> is right.
>


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Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko