[syslinux] Re: SYSLINUX 2.12-pre7 released

[Jeff Kalikstein]

The com32/modules directory now builds for me, thanks!

BTW, a "make" in the syslinux root directory fails on
this SuSe install, because mingw-gcc is not installed.
 Not a big deal, but pointing it out.

--- "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > 
> >> Jeff Kalikstein wrote:
> >>
> >>> This is also failing for me with 2.16-pre6, with
> the
> >>> same error.  I have tried a few different
> versions of
> >>> ld I have around, and they all fail the same
> way.  My
> >>> default build enviornment is with the SuSe 64
> bit
> >>> distro.  Any ideas?
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm making a 2.12-pre7 right now which should
> have this stuff cleaned up.
> >>
> > 
> > ... and found that the ld included with Fedora
> Core 3 can't compile 
> > memdisk.
> > 
> > I need to fix this one way or another.
> > 
> 
> Okay, I have a workaround for this problem (ld
> barfed on linking a piece 
> of NASM-compiled code together with a piece of
> gas-compiled code, both 
> 16 bits -- I just moved all the code into the NASM
> source file and 
> skipped the linker.)
> 
>
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/Testing/
> 
> 	-hpa
>