[syslinux] Syslinux 2.00 build problems on redhat 8.0

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jeff Mock wrote:
> 
> Unset the LANG environment varable or set it to "en_US" instead.
> This variable is set in /etc/sysconfig/i18n.  syslinux builds fine with
> no patches.
> 
> On further reflection, I think the 3 perl scripts below should
> have the following at the beginning instead of the pragma I used
> below:
> 
>     use open  IO => ":bytes";
>     binmode (STDIN, ":bytes");
>     binmode (STDOUT, ":bytes");
> 
> With the above, syslinux will build regardless of the setting of
> the LANG environment variable and error messages and such will honor
> the current locale settings.
> 

Ick.  That's ugly... :(

	-hpa