On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 06:54:49PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 23:38 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > > > > I fully agree. The idea with my proposal (we talked this on IRC, I think) > > > was to simplify things, so I proposed that we enable everything so we > > > don't > > > have to provide flags, etc. > > The main pro was to avoid frequent breakage as we experienced with grub-emu. > > I just use a script to build grub for all supported platforms with all > supported options. It's quite good for finding such errors. As it > stands now, there are no errors and no warnings. But it took a while to > fix everything. > > I think we should eventually revert to not building debug tools by > default.
Your script can detect regressions once they're committed, but enabling them by default helps prevents them from being committed in first place. I think it's an advantage. > > > I prefer if we got rid of the flags, or at least most of them (lumping > > > them > > > together with a flag to disable debug tools or so), > > I agree. grub-emu, grub-fstest and efiemu are debug tools. Neither is > needed for normal operation on any platform. I think efiemu is needed for some loaders. It's not a debug tool AFAIK. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
