Brian R. Jones wrote: > It appears that grub-mkconfig_lib has an explicit dependence on GNU > coreutils. This is ok, but it requires the GNU versions of 'stat' and > 'readlink' come before the native BSD versions in the path. I would > argue that this is a bad thing. > > I could not find a ./configure option that would allow we to set a > specific path for GNU coreutils so that grub-mkconfig_lib could > explicitly use the GNU versions rather than the native ones. All I > can say is that it would be a nice addition. > > Of course the problem can be worked around, but I generally think it's > a bad idea to put foreign tools ahead of native ones in the path. To > much chance of breaking native scripts. >
We're aware of the problem but the patch by Felix Zielcke is deemed too intrusive during pre-release phase. _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
