Bug 10316

Summary:	Building grub fails on debian stretch
Product:	buildroot	Reporter:	dde
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	buildroot
Priority:	P5
Version:	2017.08
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description dde 2017-09-14 11:32:24 UTC

Debian stretch comes with binutils 2.28 but with this version of binutils, the grub build fails in the configure stage, stating that objcopy can't be used due to incompatible binutils.

There is already a debian patch objcopy-absolute.patch for this issue, contained here:
http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-72.debian.tar.xz

If this patch is included, the build should work again.

I found this info here: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/783135/

Greetings,
Daniel

Comment 1 Thomas Petazzoni 2017-09-15 00:10:03 UTC

We now grub is broken, and Yann E. Morin has sent some patches to remove grub from Buildroot (of course we would keep grub2). What is your use case for using grub instead of grub2 ?

Comment 2 dde 2017-09-15 05:45:17 UTC

I never played with grub2.
We build a buildroot ova image with qemu from a binary image where I use an automated process which builds the partition table along with stage1/1.5 of grub.

In the end, if you're going to remove grub, I can still either use already built grub files and copy them manually or I need to figure out how to move to grub2.

Greetings,
Daniel

Comment 3 Thomas Petazzoni 2018-01-10 22:09:09 UTC

We removed grub legacy from Buildroot, so this problem no longer exists.