Re: [PATCH] Build system improvements

[BVK Chaitanya]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:37 PM, KESHAV P.R. <address@hidden> wrote:
> One small question - is ruby still required to build grub2 from
> mainline or newreloc?

Ruby is not required for mainline anymore.  I am not sure newreloc
branch is syned with mainline yet, so it may need it.  You can look up
build requirements in the INSTALL file.

> Currently I have included the following programs
> as makedepends for my grub2-efi (using rev 2627 snapshot tarball, not
> 1.98 tarball) package in archlinux
>
> ruby
> bison
> python (version 2, not 3)
> binutils
> autoconf'
> automake
> autogen
> texinfo
> ncurses
> flex
> help2man
> gettext
>
> All the packages have devel libraries included? Which of these
> packages are "not needed" for the new automake build system?
>

Ruby is not needed. Python alone is sufficient, its devel variant is
not required.  Please look in INSTALL file.

Why do you say *not* python 3?  Did you see build failing with python
3? (I havn't tried it myself, just asking)



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bvk.chaitanya