source: chapter06/grub.xml@ 20549cb0

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<sect1 id="ch-tools-grub" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="grub.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>grub</productname>
    <productnumber>&grub-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&grub-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GRUB-&grub-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-tools-grub">
    <primary sortas="a-Grub">GRUB</primary>
    <secondary>tools</secondary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../chapter08/grub.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&grub-tmp-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&grub-tmp-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of GRUB</title>

    <para>Prepare GRUB for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=$LFS/tools               \
            --build=$(build-aux/config.guess) \
            --host=$(build-aux/config.guess)  \
            --target=$LFS_TGT                 \
            --program-prefix=lfs-             \
            --disable-werror</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--build=..., --host=..., and --target=$LFS_TGT</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This allows the build to generate GRUB utilities running on
          the host system, but generating the bootloader files for $LFS_TGT.
          Then we can use the bootloader files to boot the temporary system
          on the target machine.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--program-prefix=lfs-</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This ensures that the installed programs have
          <literal>lfs-</literal> prepended to their names, to better
          distinguish them from the GRUB installation of the host
          distro.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--disable-werror</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This allows the build to complete with warnings introduced
          by more recent Flex versions.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title/>

    <para>Details on this package are located in
    <xref linkend="contents-gRUB" role="."/></para>

  </sect2>

</sect1>