New: Building grub fails on debian stretch

https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=10316

Bug ID: 10316
Summary: Building grub fails on debian stretch
Product: buildroot
Version: 2017.08
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: Other
Assignee: unassigned at buildroot.uclibc.org
Reporter: dde at innovaphone.com
CC: buildroot at uclibc.org
Target Milestone: ---

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

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--- Comment #1 from Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> --- 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 ?

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--- Comment #2 from dde at innovaphone.com ---
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.

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Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> changed:

What |Removed |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED

--- Comment #3 from Thomas Petazzoni <[email protected]> --- We removed grub legacy from Buildroot, so this problem no longer exists.

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