Need help in taking part in the development of GRUB...

[Usman Ajmal]

Hi all,

I downloaded the Grub's code from here. Then just for testing I put following lines of code in grub/main.c. What I wanted is to have "#Here I come..." string appended at the end of /boot/grub/menu.lst. But I got stuck while compiling the source code. I don't know what have I missed...

> .
> .
> .
> int main (int argc, char **argv)
> {
>   /* My modification... */
>   FILE * grubMenuFile;
>   grubMenuFile = fopen ("/boot/grub/menu.lst","w");
>   if (grubMenuFile!=NULL)
>   {
>     fputs ("#Here I come...",grubMenuFile);
>     fclose (grubMenuFile);
>   }
>
>   /* End-My modification... */
>
>   int c;
>   int hold = 0;
>
>   /* First of all, call sync so that all in-core data is scheduled to be
>      actually written to disks. This is very important because GRUB does
>      not use ordinary stdio interface but raw devices.  */
>   sync ();
> .
> .
> .

Then after saving main.c I configured the package and when i ran 'make', I got:

make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97'
Making all in netboot
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/netboot'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/netboot'
Making all in stage2
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/stage2'
make  all-am
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/stage2'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/stage2'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/stage2'
Making all in stage1
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/stage1'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/stage1'
Making all in lib
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/lib'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/lib'
Making all in grub
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/grub'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/grub'
Making all in util
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/util'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/util'
Making all in docs
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/docs'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97/docs'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/toros/Desktop/grub-0.97'