[syslinux] FreeBSD Support was: Re: SDI loading patch

[Andrew Stuart]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> The best would be if the FreeBSD people would compile in standard ELF 
> support into their binutils (I doubt it'd make it any bigger.)  The 
> right way to do this is to move this into a Makefile variable which can 
> be overridden (i.e. something like LD_386 = -m elf_i386).

Yeah I figured it could be done with the Makefile, but I am not a 
programmer. I can modify C alright, but Makefiles are still a magical 
item to me. I wasn't suggesting that you add the perl command, I just 
don't know the correct Makefile lingo.

> 
> The current git tree (post-3.62) is likely to work better, since I have 
> made some Makefile cleanups.
> 
Alright, I will check it out, but I won't have time for a week or so.

>> I have confirmed this working with 3.62 (excluding syslinux which has a 
>> compile error, if interested in adding FreeBSD support, I will report 
>> the issue separately)
> 
> Which portion of syslinux?  The "mtools" version should work; the "unix" 
> version (which is really "linux" nowadays) should not, and I wouldn't 
> expect extlinux to readily compile either.
> 
> A FreeBSD patch would definitely be accepted, I don't expect I'll have 
> time to work on that myself.
> 
> 	-hpa

I attached the output of the build. It appears mtools does compile 
correctly, although it does have a few warnings on missing files. The 
unix version is indeed the one that fails.

I wouldn't expect you to pick up the porting project, I know you keep 
busy enough. It does appear that pxelinux, memdisk and the com32 modules 
can be built, which is what I mostly use (I haven't tried building 
isolinux yet).

hey, I don't think I have said it in a while.. so Thank you again for 
your hard work.

-Andrew
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