trunk/grub fails to build with gcc 4.3.2

2010-09-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, today i downloaded by: bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub Building it on a Debian 5.04 GNU/Linux with gcc 4.3.2 failed: $ make ... cc1: warnings being treated as errors disk/mdraid1x_linux.c: In function 'grub_mdraid_detect': disk/mdraid1x_linux.c:108: error:

Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Stallman
> It appears that, rather than the operating system itself being at fault, > a number of Windows applications take over a sector in the boot track > and store bits and pieces of data there. I am surprised applications can do that. Isn't that a security hole in Windows? As for the dec

Re: Booting 64-bit Linux on a Macbook5,2

2010-09-24 Thread Patrick Doyle
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:06:37PM -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Colin Watson wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:47:44AM -0400, Patrick Doyle wrote: > You don't need to explicitly remove grub-pc, since g

Re: Guidance on conflicts between GNU GRUB and proprietary software

2010-09-24 Thread Brendan Trotter
Hi, Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in.. Any software (except the software that "owns" the MBR) that uses any sectors that are in the first track with the MBR and outside of any partition (e.g. before the first partition) is broken. Not only will this broken software (potentially) conflict with

Re: [PATCH] Fix getline name clash

2010-09-24 Thread Grégoire Sutre
On 09/24/2010 12:18, Colin Watson wrote: This looks good to me as far as it goes, but doesn't it need a bit more? I guess we should not rename the actual calls to the getline() library function (otherwise gnulib's replacement won't help). And I personally don't mind if function arguments and

Re: [PATCH] Fix getline name clash

2010-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:36:48PM +0200, Grégoire Sutre wrote: > The attached patch simply renames this field by `getnewline'. This looks good to me as far as it goes, but doesn't it need a bit more? grub-core/commands/legacycfg.c:44: auto grub_err_t getline (char **line, int cont); grub-core/

Re: [PATCH] Re-enable grub-extras

2010-09-24 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 04:36:33PM +0200, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote: > Go ahead for both trunk and extras Thanks. I've committed all this now. Note that this means that grub-extras is no longer compatible with 1.98; there were some modules where the contortions required to do