[Buildroot] [PATCH] grub: add host support

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 08/25/12 10:22, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Since you had a look some time ago at Grub (and the problem of building
> it on x86-64), could you have a look at the below proposal from Richard?
>
> Richard proposes to add a host variant of Grub. At some point, I think
> we discussed changing the target variant so that it gets built with the
> host compiler (since Grub is always built for x86/x86-64 systems).
>
> With Richard's proposal below, I'm a bit worried about the fact that
> the user needs to do "make host-grub" manually. Of course, we can add
> the host-grub package for the "Host utilities" menu. But anyway, I want
> your opinion on this.

  Yeah, that got pushed down a little on my todo list.  I was in fact looking
into grub2 to see if that's any better for cross-compilation.  But that's
almost two months ago...

  Having the possibility to compile a host-grub is a good start in any case,
however.  We can still remove it again if we decide to always do native
compilation for grub.

  Regards,
  Arnout

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