Re: Various build failures in current bzr tree

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:33:01PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 02:02:04PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > I am trying to build a powerpc build using the current bzr tree, and
> > have hit a few problems so far.
> > 
> > I am trying to use gcc-4.4, which seems to cause issues with -Werror.
> > I think that is gcc's fault, and --disable-werror gets around that,
> > so not a big deal.
> > 
> > I am hitting bug #35452 of course caused by commit r3826, but even after
> > fixing that, commit r38xx does the same thing to another set of files.
> > 
> > I also hit that grub_arch_dl_get_tramp_got_size isn't defined.  It appears
> > it was cleaned up for powerpc as being unused recently, but dl.c still
> > says that powerpc has it (along with ia64).  Removing powerpc from:
> > 
> > #if defined (__ia64__) || defined (__powerpc__)
> >   grub_arch_dl_get_tramp_got_size (e, &tramp, &got);
> > 
> > seems to fix that.
> > 
> > Should I file bug reports, or will someone just fix these?
> 
> grub-probe prints 'raid' rather than 'diskfilter' for the modulename to
> use when raid is in use.

grub-install also still (as reported about 2 years ago) tries to use
$grub_device rather than $install_device when getting the partition
table type.

However, I did now manage to boot after fixing that.

So there is a chance I can make a patch to fix grub-install soon so it
actually works on IBM power systems.  Given I have a production machine
and a new machine around for a few days I can experiment until it
is right.

-- 
Len Sorensen