On Thu, 08 Jan 2015, Maurice Kinal wrote to mark lewis:

 MK> I got brave and it worked.  :-)

on a pure 64bit system with no 32bit libs at all?? if so, very cool :)

 MK> Used grub-2.02~beta2 source with both CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS unset in
 MK> the build script.  The configure I used is;

 MK>    ./configure --prefix=/usr --sbindir=/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc
 MK> --disable-werror 

 MK> which did indeed discover gcc's -m32 switch and built a i386-pc
 MK> target.

i'll try to remember to pass this on to the others on our team ;)

 MK> Here is what ldd shows about /sbin/grub-install;

 MK>    linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff73535000)
 MK>    liblzma.so.5 => /lib/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc933ce8000)
 MK>    libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc933979000)
 MK>    libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc93375e000)   
 MK> /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc933f08000)

 MK> Those are definetly 64-bit libs.

i'll have to check it out on one of our builds... thanks! :) 

)\/(ark