From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:28:32 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] grub: add host support In-Reply-To: <20120825102258.3ba3a0dd@skate> References: <1345042674-28463-1-git-send-email-rbraun@sceen.net> <20120825102258.3ba3a0dd@skate> Message-ID: <503AB120.4090909@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 08/25/12 10:22, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Since you had a look some time ago at Grub (and the problem of building > it on x86-64), could you have a look at the below proposal from Richard? > > Richard proposes to add a host variant of Grub. At some point, I think > we discussed changing the target variant so that it gets built with the > host compiler (since Grub is always built for x86/x86-64 systems). > > With Richard's proposal below, I'm a bit worried about the fact that > the user needs to do "make host-grub" manually. Of course, we can add > the host-grub package for the "Host utilities" menu. But anyway, I want > your opinion on this. Yeah, that got pushed down a little on my todo list. I was in fact looking into grub2 to see if that's any better for cross-compilation. But that's almost two months ago... Having the possibility to compile a host-grub is a good start in any case, however. We can still remove it again if we decide to always do native compilation for grub. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F