On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 07:12:35AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 11:56:47AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Leo Famulari skribis: > >> > >> > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 03:05:11PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > >> >> FAIL: grub_func_test > >> > > >> > I saved the failed build tree to get at this test's log. The full > >> > contents of the log are this line: > >> > > >> > Functional test failure: > >> > >> Nice. What does upstream say? :-) > > > > I'm working on this today; I'll send them a bug report soon. > > > > I'm going to try skipping the tests to see if this GRUB can boot a > > system, and I'm also going to try running the tests on the latest commit > > from the upstream Git repo. > > I believe this is now fixed, by commit > 0a2a70539bdf42d59c9be5fcbc88a1c14743303a on core-updates. > > The problem turned out to be that GRUB's build system couldn't find > 'freetype', because 'pkg-config' was missing from the build environment. > This disabled font generation, as I discovered when I booted into a > core-updates system and found that GRUB was unable to find its font. > > After I fixed that problem, I was pleased to find that the test suite > started succeeding again as well :) Wow, I never would have guessed this was the issue!