Re: building grub2 on a Mac, possible bug

[Andrei Borzenkov]

В Fri, 28 Nov 2014 21:28:35 +0200
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> пишет:

> On 27.10.2014 05:24, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:00:18 -0600
> > Chris Murphy <address@hidden> пишет:
> > 
> >> This is on a macbookpro9,2, running Fedora 20, and I've git cloned from 
> >> git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grub.git and I'm in master branch.
> >>
> >> $ ./configure
> >> checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> checking target system type… x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> >>
> > 
> > This is normal; I get the same on openSUSE and IIRC it had always been
> > the case.
> > 
> >> The unknown seems suspicious. And at the end I see "GRUB2 will be compiled 
> >> with following components:
> >> Platform: i386-pc" which is also wrong. 
> >>
> > 
> > Well ... short of checking for /sys/firmware/efi, how can we know we
> > may need efi build?
> Checking fiwmware on install is ok. But not on build. Imagine a park of
> x86 machines used for building. Build result should not depend on which
> firmware they're running.
> 
> 

Actually I think defaulting to platform on which build is running makes
sense. If user needs reproducible build, user should specify platform
explicitly anyway.

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