[syslinux] 3.62-pre16: Compiling on old (2.4 kernel) distros

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Mon Feb 25 23:05:38 PST 2008


Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> * "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>:
> 
> | I have put a compile hack in for older distros and pushed it out as 
> | syslinux-3.62-pre16; for those who have reported compilation problem on 
> | older distros I would greatly appreciate if you could confirm if it 
> | works now (it worked for me on a CentOS 3.9 VM.)
> 
> Compiled fine, thanks for the fix.
> 
> One thing that seems to me like broken since several releases is the
> CC variable in the toplevel Makefile. If set to gcc-3.4.6 then the
> make output looks like this:

You can't really override it by changing the toplevel makefile.

You should be able to override it on the command line, however:

	make CC=gcc-3.4.6

	-hpa




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