Re: Next release?

[Christian Franke]

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