[syslinux] The "core32" development branch

[H. Peter Anvin]

Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>>
>>> I am getting
>>>
>>> ld -m elf_i386  -T syslinux.ld -M -o ldlinux.elf ldlinux.o libcore.a
>>> ../com32/lib/libcom32.a /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.2.1/libgcc.a >
>>> ldlinux.map
>>> ld: ldlinux.o(.stab+0x0): Stabs entry has invalid string index.
>>> ldlinux.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
>>> make[1]: *** [ldlinux.elf] Error 1
>>>
>>
>> What version of NASM are you using?
> 
> NASM version 0.98.39 compiled on Sep 21 2007
> 

0.98.39 is *really* old by now (the current official release is 2.05.01,
with 2.06 on the near horizon.)  It's quite plausible 0.98.39 produces
bad stabs which makes the linker unhappy.

I have moved the debugging options to a separate NASMDEBUG variable.  I
guess it would entail figuring out which versions of NASM actually work.
One possibility, too, would be to specify only -F stabs, newer NASM has
that as implies -g, whereas older ones don't.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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