Re: GRUB fails to build on 32-bit PowerPC with linker errors

Hi,

On Sat, 2026-02-07 at 10:00 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> this is probably a result of the changes with regards to crypto support on PowerPC [1]:
> 
> /usr/bin/powerpc-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: appendedsig.module: in function `grub_mod_init':
> /build/reproducible-path/grub2-2.14/obj/grub-emu/grub-core/../../../grub-core/commands/appendedsig/appendedsig.c:1615:(.text+0x2adc): undefined reference to `grub_pks_get_keystore'
> /usr/bin/powerpc-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: appendedsig.module: in function `create_dbs_from_pks':
> /build/reproducible-path/grub2-2.14/obj/grub-emu/grub-core/../../../grub-core/commands/appendedsig/appendedsig.c:1400:(.text+0x2c64): undefined reference to `grub_pks_free_data'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> My guess is that there needs to be an additional guard for 32-bit targets on PowerPC.
> 
> I'll look into bisecting this.

OK, this seems to be a problem specific to the Debian package. Building GRUB from git
works fine.

Adrian

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