Re: grub-1.97

[Bruce Dubbs]

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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Bruce Dubbs <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Michal Suchanek wrote:

> > > I guess it's meant to be used like this:
> > >
> > > tar -jxvf grub-version.tar.bz2
> > > cd grub-version
> > > mkdir build
> > > cd build
> > > ../configure./configure --prefix=/usr \
> >            --sysconfdir=/etc \
> >            --disable-largefile     \
> >            --disable-grub-emu      \
> >            --disable-grub-emu-usb  \
> >            --disable-grub-fstest   \
> >            --disable-efiemu --prefix=/some_prefix --options
> > > make
> > > make install
> > Yes, that is exactly what we are doing.  Right now the configure line is
>
> Not "exactly", and the difference is important.Michal suggested
> running "../configure" with a double-dot meaning parent directory.
> Your line has only a single dot, meaning current directory.  As a
> result your files are all mixed together instead of separated as
> intended.
>
> > ./configure --prefix=/usr           \
> >            --sysconfdir=/etc       \
> >            --disable-largefile     \
> >            --disable-grub-emu      \
> >            --disable-grub-emu-usb  \
> >            --disable-grub-fstest   \
> >            --disable-efiemu

Ah yes.  Thank you Richard.  Either systems works, but using a separate build 
directory keeps all the 2400 generated files out of the main directory.  I'll 
change to that in LFS.

  -- Bruce