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On 26 January 2017 at 18:03, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> I looked for more information on GRUB form upstream but, on first |
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> impression, it's been an abandoned project since 2012... Apparently some |
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> users have posted patches to things like the invalid sector size problem |
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> but the project has been deaf to these problems and has done nothing |
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> whatsoever. =( |
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The official repository for grub shows regular activity (last commit was 2 |
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days ago), see here: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/log/ |
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> *snip |
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> I don't know where Gentoo is getting it's source for Grub... |
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You can find this info by looking in the relevant ebuilds. Gentoo is |
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getting it's grub source from the official GNU grub repository: http://git. |
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savannah.gnu.org/r/grub.git |
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<http://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub.git> |
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> Apparently the git version of Grub was abandoned in 2015, as far as I |
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> can tell... |
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See above. |
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> I'm trying to build it from source. As is appropriate the |
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> git repository doesn't have the git scripts, I tried running autoreconf |
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> on it but got error messages... |
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> I cleared a few of them but I'm like: |
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> atg@localhost ~/source/grub $ autoreconf |
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> autoreconf-2.69: configure.ac: AM_GNU_GETTEXT is used, but not |
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> AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION |
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> automake-1.15: error: cannot open < Makefile.util.am: No such file or |
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> directory |
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> autoreconf-2.69: automake failed with exit status: 1 |
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> atg@localhost ~/source/grub $ |
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> Is there a way to ebuild a "grub-git" and produce a grub install with |
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> version = date of most recent commit on active fork? |
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If you'd like to build the most recent version directly from the git |
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repository you could emerge "=grub-9999" (portage will do everything for |
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you, that is, it pulls the sources directly from the master branch and |
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builds from them). Otherwise, clone the sources yourself and, instead of |
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autoreconf, run the provided autogen.sh script, which is what you should |
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generally do for autotools-projects instead of running autoconf yourself. |
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Hope this helps, |
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Michael |
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