Re: fwupdate not building; efibootmgr 0.11.0 crashes with efivar 0.18

["D. Jared Dominguez" <Jared_Dominguez@dell.com>]

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 01:38:23PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 08:42:15PM -0500, D. Jared Dominguez wrote:
> > Hi Peter,
>
> Just catching up on email from last week...
>
> > I'm trying to build fwupdate. I know it's early, but I'd like to make it
> > testable on Debian. It's not buildable for me because it barfs on this:
> > make[3]: Entering directory '/«BUILDDIR»/fwupdate-0.2+git20150520/efi'
> > gcc -O0 -g3 -fpic -Wall -fshort-wchar -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-merge-constants -ffreestanding -fno-stack-protector -fno-stack-check --std=c11 -DCONFIG_x86_64 -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/include/efi/ -I/usr/include/efi/x86_64/ -iquote/«BUILDDIR»/fwupdate-0.2+git20150520/include -mno-mmx -mno-sse -mno-red-zone -nostdinc -maccumulate-outgoing-args -DEFI_FUNCTION_WRAPPER -DGNU_EFI_USE_MS_ABI -I/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/include -c -o fakeesrt2.o fakeesrt2.c
> > fakeesrt2.c:1:17: fatal error: efi.h: No such file or directory
> >   #include <efi.h>
> >                   ^
> > compilation terminated.
> > make[3]: *** [fakeesrt2.o] Error 1
> > Makefile:53: recipe for target 'fakeesrt2.o' failed
> > make[3]: Leaving directory '/«BUILDDIR»/fwupdate-0.2+git20150520/efi'
> >
> > I'm actually not sure where efi.h is supposed to come from. I see a
> > fwup-efi.h in fwupdate's source and no efi.h in efivar's source. Am I
> > missing something?
>
> That's from gnu-efi (or gnu-efi-devel in recent fedora) - I don't know
> how debian breaks down those packages.

Sending you a patch to your spec file for this.

> > A Debian user
> > has also reported that efibootmgr crashes on him when using libefivar0 0.18:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785786
>
> I'm not seeing a /crash/ there, but that's certainly a failure
> somewhere.  Hard to know if it's in efibootmgr or efivar or grub without
> the command line, though :/

I ended up reverting to efivar 0.15 since you're in the middle of 
updating/refactoring all the efi things.

--Jared


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Jared Domínguez
Infrastructure Software Engineering
Dell | Enterprise Solutions Group