Bug#389873: grub2: FTBFS (ppc64): util/console.c:275: undefined reference to `stdscr'

[Andreas Jochens]

Package: grub2
Version: 1.94+20060926-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hello,

thank you for uploading the new version of grub2 which also targets ppc64.

When building 'grub2' on ppc64/unstable, I get the following error:

util/console.c:89: undefined reference to `stdscr'
util/console.c:89: undefined reference to `stdscr'
util/console.c:89: undefined reference to `waddch'
grub_emu-util_console.o: In function `grub_ncurses_init':
util/console.c:271: undefined reference to `stdscr'
util/console.c:268: undefined reference to `initscr'
util/console.c:269: undefined reference to `raw'
util/console.c:270: undefined reference to `noecho'
util/console.c:271: undefined reference to `stdscr'
util/console.c:271: undefined reference to `scrollok'
util/console.c:273: undefined reference to `nonl'
util/console.c:274: undefined reference to `stdscr'
util/console.c:274: undefined reference to `intrflush'
util/console.c:275: undefined reference to `stdscr'
util/console.c:275: undefined reference to `keypad'
util/console.c:276: undefined reference to `start_color'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [grub-emu] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/grub2-1.94+20060926'
make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2

This occurs because util/console.c is compiled with the '-m32' switch
and the linker does not find a corresponding 32-bit-powerpc libncurses 
library on ppc64.

With the attached patch 'grub2' can be compiled on ppc64.

Regards
Andreas Jochens

diff -urN ../tmp-orig/grub2-1.94+20060926/configure ./configure
--- ../tmp-orig/grub2-1.94+20060926/configure	2006-09-26 17:24:33.000000000 +0000
+++ ./configure	2006-09-28 07:12:59.000000000 +0000
@@ -1877,10 +1877,6 @@
     NONENONEs,x,x, &&
   program_prefix=${target_alias}-
 
-case "$host_cpu" in
-  powerpc64) host_m32=1 ;;
-esac
-
 case "$target_cpu" in
   i[3456]86) target_cpu=i386 ;;
   x86_64) target_cpu=i386 target_m32=1 ;;
diff -urN ../tmp-orig/grub2-1.94+20060926/configure.ac ./configure.ac
--- ../tmp-orig/grub2-1.94+20060926/configure.ac	2006-07-12 20:42:52.000000000 +0000
+++ ./configure.ac	2006-09-28 07:12:47.000000000 +0000
@@ -40,10 +40,6 @@
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AC_CANONICAL_TARGET
 
-case "$host_cpu" in
-  powerpc64) host_m32=1 ;;
-esac
-
 case "$target_cpu" in
   i[[3456]]86) target_cpu=i386 ;;
   x86_64) target_cpu=i386 target_m32=1 ;;