From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Opera/8.5 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Description of problem: A couple of issues, the configure script is broken, causing tests for ncurses.h to fail. This seems to be an autoconf problem that affects many of the tests. These tests build their conftest.c with the string: 'ac_includes_default' which uses macros that are never defined. The attached patch shows how a fix can be forced, but I don't know enough about autoconf to do the fix properly. This patch should be applied after the autoreconf step (thus I moved autoreconf into %prep) On an x86_64 system, the grub binaries are compiled in -m32 mode, therefore, to link to ncurses, the ncurses, ncurses-devel packages from i386. To let rpm help us enforce this, a BuildRequires: /lib/libncurses.so.5 could be added. When the above fix is applied, ncurses libraries (32bit) are detected properly, but on x86_64, we find a new problem. The -static flag is added to the CFLAGS for the configure and build on this arch, but there is a patch: grub-0.95- staticcurses.patch that adds CFLAGS: -Wl,-Bstatic -lncurses -Wl,-Bdynamic which is fine on ix86 because the link method is set to static, then back to dynamic for the final linking of the start and end scripts, but is a problem on x86_64 where the link method is always static, the final linking is then done in dynamic mode, generating a useless binary. To fix this, the application of the staticcurses patch can be enclosed in: %ifnarch x86_64, %endif Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.95 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Build grub 2. On both ix86 and x86_64, notice the 'checking ncurses/curses.h usability...' output from %configure 3. Press tab in x86_64 grub console, no completions Additional info:
Created attachment 120918 [details] Kludgy fix for configure script to demonstrate solution
...therefore, to link to ncurses, the ncurses, ncurses-devel packages from i386 ... should be installed on the build host.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
I downloaded the latest rawhide grub (0.97-13) and built it on my fc6, x86_64 desktop. Same issue, the generated grub binary is useless. I don't know how redhat builds grub internally. The rpm that ships with fc6 is built for x86_64, but it seems to work fine, I assume it is built on a ix86 host with setarch? Or maybe I'm doing something wrong. With the following changes made to the rawhide grub spec: - ifnarch x86_64 macros around the 'static' patch - autoreconf moved to %prep - apply my configure fix patch, ugly as it is , I can build on my desktop and have a valid binary produced (although untested here, I do use the above steps in the production of a grub package for my companys product) I changed the target product to fc6.
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