RE: Problem in configure

2008-10-13 Thread James Shewey
ROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 3:38 AM To: The development of GRUB 2 Subject: Re: Problem in configure Clemens Helfmeier wrote: > This is a shell thing. It just ensures that the evaluation does not > result in if test = xno; then > (in case the variable is empty) and thus throw a

Re: Problem in configure

2008-10-13 Thread Christian Franke
Clemens Helfmeier wrote: > This is a shell thing. It just ensures that the evaluation does not > result in if test = xno; then > (in case the variable is empty) and thus throw an error. with "x" it > its like this for an empty variable > if test x = xno; then > which would work fine for shells. >

Re: Problem in configure

2008-10-12 Thread Clemens Helfmeier
Hi James, This is a shell thing. It just ensures that the evaluation does not result in if test = xno; then (in case the variable is empty) and thus throw an error. with "x" it its like this for an empty variable if test x = xno; then which would work fine for shells. The x does not affect the r

Re: Problem in configure

2008-10-12 Thread James Shewey
This may be a nevermind situation. I was compiling on a 64 bit system. Changing the line described to if test "$grub_cv_prog_target_cc" = xno; then" Resulted in an error stating that neither start or _start was defined. This led me to the following post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56