Re: grub: amd64 missing

[Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>]

* Huaqing Zheng wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de> wrote:
> > Okay, this was wrong, there are experimental buildds for amd64,
> > and they are already used on backports.org. Looks like the
> > webinterface I mentioned above is just outdated, so I can't see
> > what's the problem when building grub on amd64.
> 
> Grub won't build with gcc-3.3 on amd64 because it's essentially a
> cross-compile. So you have to tweak the Build-Depends to require
> gcc-3.4 and tweak rules to use gcc-3.4 instead of the default
> gcc-3.3. You also have to change the name of the ia32 compat
> libraries in Build-Depends.

Good to know, thanks.

                Norbert