[Buildroot] [Bug 10316] New: Building grub fails on debian stretch

[Buildroot] [Bug 10316] New: Building grub fails on debian stretch

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https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10316

            Bug ID: 10316
           Summary: Building grub fails on debian stretch
           Product: buildroot
           Version: 2017.08
          Hardware: All
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Other
          Assignee: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org
          Reporter: dde at innovaphone.com
                CC: buildroot at uclibc.org
  Target Milestone: ---

Debian stretch comes with binutils 2.28 but with this version of binutils, the
grub build fails in the configure stage, stating that objcopy can't be used due
to incompatible binutils.

There is already a debian patch objcopy-absolute.patch for this issue,
contained here:
http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-72.debian.tar.xz

If this patch is included, the build should work again.

I found this info here: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/783135/

Greetings,
Daniel

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[Buildroot] [Bug 10316] Building grub fails on debian stretch

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--- Comment #1 from Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> ---
We now grub is broken, and Yann E. Morin has sent some patches to remove grub
from Buildroot (of course we would keep grub2). What is your use case for using
grub instead of grub2 ?

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[Buildroot] [Bug 10316] Building grub fails on debian stretch

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--- Comment #2 from dde at innovaphone.com ---
I never played with grub2.
We build a buildroot ova image with qemu from a binary image where I use an
automated process which builds the partition table along with stage1/1.5 of
grub.

In the end, if you're going to remove grub, I can still either use already
built grub files and copy them manually or I need to figure out how to move to
grub2.

Greetings,
Daniel

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[Buildroot] [Bug 10316] Building grub fails on debian stretch

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Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

--- Comment #3 from Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> ---
We removed grub legacy from Buildroot, so this problem no longer exists.

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