[syslinux] SYSLINUX 3.72-pre7: getting close, when no compile error occures

[Geert Stappers]

Op 20080925 om 15:14 schreef H. Peter Anvin:
> Gabor Z. Papp wrote:
> > * Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl>:
> > 
> > | Providing more information
> > | about "my gPXE compiling problem (you can find in the archive)"
> > | would also help.
> > 
> > Sorry, here we are. Its different from the archive, but seems like
> > gPXE related too...
> > 
> 
> [ ... ]

Euh

  make -r all-local  

is snipped  (removed) ....

> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7/gpxe'
> > make -C src EMBEDDED_IMAGE=../../core/pxelinux.0 bin/undionly.kpxe
> > cat: bin/.blib.list: No such file or directory
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7/gpxe/src'
> > Generating Makefile rules for exe media
~ ~ Generating Makefile rules for several other media
> > Generating Makefile rules for pxe media
> > Generating Makefile rules for rom media
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7/gpxe/src'
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7/gpxe/src'
> >   [AR] bin/blib.a
> > ar: creating bin/blib.a
> >   [HOSTCC] util/zbin
> >   [LD] bin/undionly.kpxe.tmp
> > arch/i386/scripts/i386.lds:1: undefined symbol `obj_kpxeprefix' referenced in expression
> > make[2]: *** [bin/undionly.kpxe.tmp] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7/gpxe/src'
> > make[1]: *** [src/bin/undionly.kpxe] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-3.72-pre7/gpxe'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > 
> 
> For whatever reason, on your system (and apparently not on anyone 
> else's), the gPXE build is simply skipped. 

For what it is worth, I think it is the '-r' in
  make -r all-local
meaning '--no-builtin-rules'


Geert Stappers
not knowning why 'make' is expanded into 'make -r all-local'
on the computersystem of the original poster