[syslinux] how to compile syslinux-4.03

[Aaron Luo]

thanks Gilles,

I will try it ASAP.
And if the error happen again, I need your help.

thanks aaron


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gilles Espinasse" <g.esp at free.fr>
To: "For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com>
Cc: "Aaron Luo" <luotanke at 163.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 6:49 AM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] how to compile syslinux-4.03


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
> To: "For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa" <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Cc: "Aaron Luo" <luotanke at 163.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [syslinux] Syslinux Digest, Vol 92, Issue 25
>
>
>> On 11/30/2010 04:14 AM, Aaron Luo wrote:
>> > Sorry Gene,
>> >
>> > I got the version of binutils is 2.17.
>> > I download the latest Binutils to make the *objdump* and *objcopy*. 
>> > with
>> > both of these utilities to create new pxelinux.raw.
>> > then, the error message shows me that,
>> >
>> > objcopy -O binary pxelinux.elf pxelinux.raw
>> > ../lzo/prepcore pxelinux.raw pxelinux.bin
>> > ../lzo/prepcore: pxelinux.raw: output too big (30165, max 0)
>> > make[1]: *** [pxelinux.bin] Error 1
>> >
> not simple to compile binutils properly
>
>> > so, i thought maybe there is something wrong with the format of the
>> > pxelinux.raw.
>> > is that right?
>> >
>>
>> Either that, or prepcore miscompiles on this platform.
>>
>> -hpa
>>
> I try full syslinux compilation with binutils-2.20.1, nasm-2.09.04,
> gcc-4.4.5.
> It compile entirely (except the win part) after unsetting LDFLAGS which
> value was "-Wl,--hash-style=gnu"
>
> After a make clean, it fail to compile again because I had not python
> installed in that chroot.
> Error is
> python 
> menugen.py --input=test.menu --output=test.c --template=adv_menu.tpl
> make[2]: python: Command not found
>
> Anyway on centos-5.5, 'make installer' work without special package 
> upgrade.
>
> Gilles
>
>