Re: grub-install for FreeBSD

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:36:01AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Andrey Shuvikov wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I tried to install Grub2 under FreeBSD but grub-install failed because 
> > readlink doesn't understand -f and stat doesn't have -c. I edited 
> > grub-mkconfig_lib.in to use different commands instead. I'm not sure it's 
> > the right way to handle this difference but it worked. The patch is 
> > attached.
> >
> >   
> We're aware of this problem. Felix Zielcke has a solution but at this
> point it's deemed too intrusive. We'll probably commit it once feature
> freeze is over

Alternatively, I could also allow a patch that checks the capabilities of
those commands.  It should try readlink first, and fallback to greadlink
if necessary.

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