XPost: linux.debian.ports.powerpc   
   From: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de   
      
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   Hi,   
      
   On Sat, 2026-02-07 at 10:30 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:   
   > starting with version 2.14-1, grub2 fails to build from source 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   
   >    
   > Since I initially suspected an upstream problem, I tried building grub2 from   
   > git which surprisingly worked fine [2]. Thus, the problem must be with the   
   Debian   
   > package itself, either one of the patches or how the package is configured in   
   > debian/rules.   
      
   It's actually an upstream bug and can be reproduced when building grub-emu   
   instead   
   of grub-ieee1275 with "--with-platform=emu". I have already reported the issue   
   to   
   the corresponding upstream author [1].   
      
   Adrian   
      
   > [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2026-02/msg00077.html   
      
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