[syslinux] how to compile syslinux-4.03

[Dag Wieers]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Gilles Espinasse wrote:

> Selon Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>:
>> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> On 11/29/2010 09:51 AM, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My build system is RadHat Advance 5 update 5.
>>>>>> the version of gcc is 4.1.2
>>>>>> nasm is latest one, version is 2.0.9
>>>>>> I don't know the builtin version. i just install bash from the disc.
>>>>
>>>> Binutils is a package.  Try running 'as --version' and the GNU
>>>> assembler should show you the version.  GNU assembler is a part of
>>>> binutils.
>>>>
>>>> The other user had CentOS 5.5, which should be similar (if not same)
>>>> versions.  I never heard if an update to binutils solved this issue or
>>>> if the user had to also upgrade GCC in order for things to work.  I'm
>>>> BCC'ing the user as I'm uncertain if he is on the list.
>>>
>>> Since CentOS 5.5 and RHEL 5 AS 5 are basically the same packages, this
>>> sounds like a fairly narrow set of conditions having problems.
>>
>> I still build syslinux for RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5 and RHEL6 and I can attest
>> that building works fine on these vanilla distributions.
>>
>> For RHEL5 that includes gcc 4.1.2 and nasm 0.98.39. At least the RHEL5
>> package is used on a daily basis.
>
> You probably build only as recommended in doc/distrib.txt, aka
> make installer
> make install
>
> Full build (only make) will not support nasm-0.98.39, tested yesterday

Yes, you are right. We have to follow the recommendations as these 
packages are meant as drop-in replacement.

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