[syslinux] Compilation on PPC/bigendian machine

[H. Peter Anvin]

Christian Schilmöller wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> Sometimes I need to make boot floppies for an i386 based Linux router. 
> Just for interest, I tried to use syslinux together with my iMac G4 
> (PPC) with Yellow Dog Linux to create the floppy.
> I know that this is generally difficult because it requires 
> cross-compiler and cross-assembler. Nevertheless, I tried it because I 
> only needed the disk installer, the loader binaries for i386 were 
> already there.
> I've found out that the installer was intended to be portable, but in 
> fact wasn't due to some typos and missing typecasts in the file 
> libfat/ulint.h.
> I was able to correct them and tested the installer successfully.
> 
> For the case that someone comes across the same problem (or maybe for 
> the next version), I'll attach the diff-file of my changes here.
> 

Uhm... this doesn't make sense,  le16_t is defined as an array of uint8_t's, so the casts 
should have meant nothing.

I wonder if the typedefs at the top of ulint.h need __attribute__((packed)).

	-hpa