Bug#921249: grub2: Please include patch to fix build on sparc64

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 04:03:13PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Recent versions of binutils no longer support a.out or COFF as
> output formats on SPARC. Since GRUB used a.out on SPARC as the
> executable format for the stage2 loader, the build currently
> fails with:
> 
> objcopy:boot.img: invalid bfd target
> make[5]: *** [Makefile:45616: boot.img] Error 1
> make[5]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> objcopy:cdboot.img: invalid bfd target
> 
> We have decided that the easiest solution to fix this problem is
> by just writing the a.out header for the stage2 binary ourselves.

Thanks for the patch!  I've applied it to master.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]