On Saturday 19 May 2007 17:30, Patrick Georgi wrote: > I'm now using a cross compiler with target "i386-elf", ie. no operating > system specification, which works fine so far. With grub2 I had an issue > in the configuration process as some tests try to build executables with > the target compiler that link libc (and potentially even more libs) - > which don't exist in my configuration. > As those are not necessary, I decided to modify grub2 instead of messing > around even more with the not-so-nice gcc build system.
They are necessary. Otherwise, you cannot make a core image, for example. Also, without grub-emu, how do you plan to debug GRUB? BTW I can hardly believe that it is so difficult to use gnu build tools on solaris. Otherwise, how are opensolaris developers building GRUB? Okuji _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel