grub2: FTBFS on powerpc (was: GRUB2 adds powerpc support)

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

Package: grub2
Severity: serious

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:50:49PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wrote:
> 
> It fails to build:
> 
> gcc -Iutil -I./util -I. -Iinclude -I./include -Wall -W
> -DGRUB_DATADIR=\"/usr/share/grub/powerpc-ieee1275\" -g -O2
> -DGRUB_UTIL=1  -c -o grub_emu-util_console.o util/console.c
> util/console.c:21:20: curses.h: No such file or directory

Ough, that's a serious bug.

> Adding a build-dependency on libncurses5-dev | libncurses-dev fixes
> that, but it fails later with some undefined references. Full build log
> available at
> http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/grub2_0.6+20040429-1.1_powerpc.build .

I'm told upstream is aware of this.

Thanks!

-- 
Robert Millan

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