Bug#350168: grub: build fails ungracefully with architecture "linux"

[Marc Haber]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-4
Severity: minor

Hi,

on sarge, dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_SYSTEM returns linux. This
causes the makefile variable filesystems to be unset on build, and
thus the build failing because e2fs_stage_1_5 is not where it is
expected.

To ease backports, grub's debian/rules should be modified to
gracefully handle "linux" as well as "linux-gnu".

If that's not possible, build should abort with a meaningful message
if the architecture parsed from dpkg-architecture is not recognized.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.1-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-12   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information