Re: grub-install for FreeBSD

[Brian R. Jones]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:36:01AM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> > Andrey Shuvikov wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I tried to install Grub2 under FreeBSD but grub-install failed because readlink 
> > > doesn't understand -f and stat doesn't have -c. I edited grub-mkconfig_lib.in 
> > > to use different commands instead. I'm not sure it's the right way to handle 
> > > this difference but it worked. The patch is attached.
> > >
> > >   
> > We're aware of this problem. Felix Zielcke has a solution but at this
> > point it's deemed too intrusive. We'll probably commit it once feature
> > freeze is over
>
> Alternatively, I could also allow a patch that checks the capabilities of
> those commands.  It should try readlink first, and fallback to greadlink
> if necessary.


Not sure if Felix's patch covers it, but there is also a problem with the 
'sed' syntax in 10_freebsd and 30_os-prober.  It turns out that freebsd 
'sed' is quite retarded (at least in 7.2) and doesn't know that '\t' is 
supposed to be tab.  Replacing 'sed' with 'gsed' or 'perl -p' fixes this issue.

Where would I go to view Felix's path?  I am concerned because freebsd also 
has a 'gstat' command that does not work either.  Only by installing the 
coreutils and pointing explicitly at the coreutils version of gstat did I 
get this to work.

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--Brian