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Documenting the GRUB configure (during build)


From: Bruce Dubbs
Subject: Documenting the GRUB configure (during build)
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:46:24 -0600
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I want to submit an update to the INSTALL file. In looking at ./configure, it does some guessing. We have:

`--enable-efiemu'
     Build and install the efiemu runtimes (default=guessed)

`--enable-grub-emu'
     Build and install the `grub-emu' debugging utility (default=guessed)

`--enable-grub-emu-usb'
     Build and install the `grub-emu' debugging utility with USB support
     (default=guessed)

`--enable-grub-fstest'
Build and install the `grub-fstest' debugging utility (default=guessed)

`--enable-grub-mkfont'
     Build and install the `grub-mkfont' utility (default=guessed)
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I am trying to see how configure guesses.  It looks like:

enable-efiemu depends on gcc supporting
   -m64 -mcmodel=large -mno-red-zone -nostdlib

enable-grub-emu depends on ncurses

enable-grub-emu-usb depends on enable-grub-emu and libusb

enable-grub-fstest really has a default of yes

enable-grub-mkfont depends on fontconfig
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Is this analysis right?

Should the description of enable-grub-fstest be changed to yes in configure.ac?

Actually, I would think the four testing/debug programs above should default to no with perhaps a global --enable-testing-programs to turn them all on.

Of course grub-mkfont should be on by default if fontconfig is available, as it is
now.

  --- Bruce




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