Re: Trying to build Grub-2.12 on Slackware-Current

[Oliver Steffen]

Quoting Charles Broam (2024-02-18 19:08:37)
> To Help-Grub Helpers:
>
> I'm on Slackware-Current (64 bit). And Grub only goes to 2.06 for
> Slackware-Current. There is a Grub Slackbuild for 2.06, which I'm trying to
> make work for Grub-2.12. But I don't know which patches to remove, and I'm
> still getting errors.
>
> b=`basename $pp .marker`; \
> >   if grep 'VIDEO_LIST_MARKER' $pp >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
> >     echo $b; \
> >   fi; \
> > done) | sort -u > video.lst
> > make[3]: *** No rule to make target '../grub-core/extra_deps.lst', needed
> > by 'syminfo.lst'.  Stop.
> > make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/grub-2.12/grub-core'
> > make[2]: *** [Makefile:28855: all] Error 2
> > make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/grub-2.12/grub-core'
> > make[1]: *** [Makefile:12131: all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/grub-2.12'
> > make: *** [Makefile:3958: all] Error 2
> >
>
> That is a snippet from the last build attempt. Is there a log file, and if
> so where is this logfile? What is the name of the logfile? I want clearer
> error messages of what went wrong.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Sincerely,
> Charles B
>

Hi Charles,

Others had the same problem.
You could try this patch:
https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2023-12/msg00053.html

I somehow had thought that this went in already.

- Oliver