Bug 73499

Summary:	grub ebuild fails when BLOCK_SIZE=human_readable set in environment
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Frank Szczerba <frank>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	rhill
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Frank Szczerba 2004-12-05 18:35:13 UTC

If BLOCK_SIZE=human_readable is set in the environment when grub is emerged, start.S fails to compile in stage2. STAGE2_SIZE get set to something like 386k, rather than 395264 (for example, not actual numbers).

The fix should be as simple as adding an "unset BLOCK_SIZE" into the ebuild, but unfortunately I don't have the time to try this myself at the moment.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. export BLOCK_SIZE=human_readable
2. emerge sys-boot/grub-0.94-r2


Actual Results:  
make failed in stage2 building start.S. Compiler reported missing ')' at line 366.

Expected Results:  
compiled cleanly

I was building grub-0.94-r2 with gcc 3.3.4 20040623, but this should be universal.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-16 20:22:49 UTC

*** Bug 82217 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-03-10 20:29:27 UTC

fixed in cvs in all ebuilds, sorry for the delay