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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Compiling grub on x86_64
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:56:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120628115613.7b4f26ad@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120628114631.25da4786@skate>

Le Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:46:31 +0200,
Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> a ?crit :

> Agreed. It's however a shame that it's not possible to build a complete
> bootloader+kernel+rootfs for x86_64 with a single Buildroot
> configuration :-(
> 
> How other build systems handle this?

Other questions:

 * What about using the host compiler to build Grub? I know it sounds a
   bit funky, but in practice, most Buildroot users will work on
   x86/x86_64 machines. If they are on x86, then it just works, if they
   work on x86_64, then most likely they have a multilib 32/64
   toolchain installed on their host. This would at least enable, for
   most users, the possibility of building Grub as part of a x86_64
   target system configuration.

 * What does Grub really require from gcc_s? Is it impossible to rework
   Grub to make independent from the compiler companion libraries?

Regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-28  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-25  7:51 [Buildroot] Compiling grub on x86_64 Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-06-25  8:04 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-06-28  8:09   ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-06-28  9:46     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2012-06-28  9:56       ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2012-06-28 12:44         ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2012-06-28 13:06           ` Thomas Petazzoni

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