[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.61 released

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Changes in 3.61:
>> 	* EXTLINUX: fix crash when accessing an empty file.
>> 	* elf.c32: If a PHDR segment is present, load it.
>> 	* Fix SHA-1 and MD5 passwords.
>> 	* ISOLINUX: fix booting when mastered without
>> 	  mkisofs -boot-info-table (broken since 3.50, sigh...)
>> 	* Handle BIOSes which emit multiple contiguous valid
>> 	  memory regions in the e820 map.
> 
> Since this release, I am unable to build extlinux on RHEL3 and RH9 because
> of the following compile error:
> 
> 	gcc -Wp,-MT,extlinux.o,-MMD,.extlinux.o.d -W -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -Os -I. -I.. -I../libinstaller -c -o extlinux.o extlinux.c
> 	In file included from /usr/include/linux/vfs.h:4,
> 	                 from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:14,
> 	                 from extlinux.c:43:
> 	/usr/include/asm/statfs.h:12: redefinition of `struct statfs'
> 	make[1]: *** [extlinux.o] Error 1
> 	make[1]: Leaving directory `/dar/build/syslinux-3.61/extlinux'
> 	make: *** [installer] Error 2
> 
> The following patch seems to fix the problem:
> 
> 	--- extlinux/extlinux.c.orig	2008-02-04 05:58:50.000000000 +0100
> 	+++ extlinux/extlinux.c	2008-01-11 07:42:10.000000000 +0100
> 	@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
> 	 #include <sys/stat.h>
> 	 #include <sys/types.h>
> 	 #include <sys/mount.h>
> 	-#include <sys/vfs.h>
> 
> 	 #include <linux/fd.h>		/* Floppy geometry */
> 	 #include <linux/hdreg.h>	/* Hard disk geometry */
> 

That would be a bug in those distros... <sys/vfs.h> *is* the correct 
header for statfs().

I don't have any system that old readily on hand to I can figure out a 
workaround that doesn't bugger up other systems, I'm afraid.

However, the workaround you have used should work on those distros at least.

	-hpa