From 78081a31e1022771ccdf14327e7f725e419821b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sergei Trofimovich Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 11:53:23 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] grub4dos: mark broken grub4dos is broken for a while after `binutils` update as: > checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... no > configure: error: GRUB requires a working absolute objcopy; upgrade your binutils Upstream has an unfixed report in 2017. Let's mark the package broken. --- pkgs/tools/misc/grub4dos/default.nix | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/pkgs/tools/misc/grub4dos/default.nix b/pkgs/tools/misc/grub4dos/default.nix index 6ffddd4f98a..f00720af15e 100644 --- a/pkgs/tools/misc/grub4dos/default.nix +++ b/pkgs/tools/misc/grub4dos/default.nix @@ -39,5 +39,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation { maintainers = with maintainers; [ abbradar ]; platforms = platforms.linux; license = licenses.gpl2; + # Needs a port to modern binutils: + # https://github.com/chenall/grub4dos/issues/160 + broken = true; }; }