Re: [PATCH] New x86_64 EFI patch

[Javier Martín]

El jue, 17-07-2008 a las 17:50 +0800, Bean escribió:
> Committed.
> 
Seemingly, the fact that there is now separate recognition for "x86_64"
machine types has borked the current build system in amd64 PCs:

$ make
./config.status --recheck
running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ../src/configure
--prefix=/home/javier/Proyectos/grub/build/out/  --no-create
--no-recursion
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
configure: error: unsupported machine type
make: *** [config.status] Error 1

The current system would build bootloader files as i386-pc (with the
-m32 switch in gcc, which itself created the infamous "cannot find start
or _start" problem when a multilib version of gcc was not installed) and
helper files like grub-setup as amd64. This caused problems of its own,
like grub-emu (built as amd64) being unable to load any grub modules
(built as i386), but at least worked OOtB.

I was able to correctly recompile if I reconfigured GRUB with
--target=i386-pc-linux-gnu (i386-pc alone was not recognized). Is this
the current way to go? I feel it should not be so, because it multiboot2
comes out with amd64 support, there should be an x86_64-pc grub2.

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