Pavel Roskin wrote:
Hello!
Now that we have lzma compression, we should probably consider making
another release in a week or two.
Before it happens, I'd like to add a configure test for working target
compiler, so that users of pure x86_64 machines are not surprised by a
message that "start" and "_start" are not found.
By the way, that check could be generalized to allow more symbols, such
as "Ltext0" on Cygwin. It would be great if GRUB 1.97 compiled on
Cygwin out-of-box. Cygwin lacked some lzo development files, but we
don't need them anymore.
Thanks for considering Cygwin support for the next release.
The first (and last) grub package released in the Cygwin distribution
was based on grub codebase from 2008-03-26. My latest reasonably tested
merge is ~2 month old. If desired, I can merge & test all remaining
changes to current HEAD and post the patches for review soon.
BTW:
- Supporting "Ltext0" would not help much for Cygwin, because a linker
script is required due to the lack of "ld -N" support.
- Cygwin liblzo2* packages were released 1 week before the grub package :-)
Christian
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