Hi,

I had the same problem the other day and just ran ./make.sh build again and it went through.

Sometimes it just does not find Python I think. No idea why that is. Maybe config.log has more details.

Best,
-Michael

> On 7 Sep 2019, at 20:23, peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org wrote:
> 
> Hello *,
> 
> the current 'next' branch of IPFire 2.x fails to compile grub:
> 
>> grub (2.02)                                                                                                                      [       34 ][ FAIL ]
>> 
>>    config.status: creating config-util.h
>>    config.status: linking include/grub/x86_64 to include/grub/cpu
>>    config.status: linking include/grub/x86_64/efi to include/grub/machine
>>    config.status: executing depfiles commands
>>    config.status: executing po-directories commands
>>    config.status: creating po/POTFILES
>>    config.status: creating po/Makefile
>>    *******************************************************
>>    GRUB2 will be compiled with following components:
>>    Platform: x86_64-efi
>>    With devmapper support: Yes
>>    With memory debugging: No
>>    With disk cache statistics: No
>>    With boot time statistics: No
>>    efiemu runtime: No (not available on efi)
>>    grub-mkfont: Yes
>>    grub-mount: No (need FUSE library)
>>    starfield theme: No (No DejaVu found)
>>    With libzfs support: No (need zfs library)
>>    Build-time grub-mkfont: Yes
>>    With unifont from ./unifont.pcf.gz
>>    With liblzma from -llzma (support for XZ-compressed mips images)
>>    *******************************************************
>>    cd /usr/src/grub-2.02-efi && make -j5
>>    make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/grub-2.02-efi'
>>    python gentpl.py Makefile.util.def Makefile.utilgcry.def > Makefile.util.am.new || (rm -f Makefile.util.am.new; exit 1)
>>    /bin/sh: python: command not found
>>    make[1]: *** [Makefile:12159: Makefile.util.am] Error 1
>>    make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/grub-2.02-efi'
>>    make: *** [grub:108: /usr/src/log/grub-2.02] Error 2
>> 
>> ERROR: Building grub                                                                                                                         [ FAIL ]
>>    Check /home/pmu/working/ipfire-2.x/log/_build.ipfire.log for errors if applicable                                                        [ FAIL ]
> Anything I am doing wrong? Anybody else experiencing this error?
> 
> Footnote: Intention was to update Tor, iptables and libnetfilter_queue.
> Just in case anybody else is currently at these, too. iproute2 also needs
> a major update, but that will be a second step.
> 
> Thanks, and best regards,
> Peter Müller