Re: RFC: conf/i386.rmk

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 22:07 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:58 +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > 
> > > > I tried moving more stuff to common.rmk many times but gave up every
> > > > time.  One of the reasons is that the sparc64 support is very
> > > > out-of-date and doesn't use common.rmk at all.  I cannot even test it
> > > > (well, I haven't tries hard).
> > > 
> > > If sparc64 support is out of date and the maintainer is nowhere to be 
> > > seen then I think you can put that support to graveyard until someone 
> > > comes up to update it. Putting all common stuff to every platform to 
> > > common.rmk is a good way and the only way (in my opinion) to go forward.
> > 
> > OK, then there is an issue that it doesn't work if done naively.
> 
> What is the problem exactly?

Take all text in conf/i386-pc.rmk from "For grub-emu" to "Scripts" and
move it to the end of conf/common.rmk.  Run autogen.sh, configure
--enable-grub-emu and make.  You'll get:

make: *** No rule to make target `grub-emu', needed by `all-local'.
Stop.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin