[syslinux] Syslinux 4.04 released

[Gene Cumm]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 07:45, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 03:03, Gabor Z. Papp <gzp at papp.hu> wrote:
>> * "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>:
>>
>> | Syslinux 4.04 is primarily a bug fix release, but with some new
>> | features.
>>
>> utils/ppmtolss16 still uses the hardcoded perl instead from MCONFIG?
>>
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/sample'
>> gzip -cd syslogo.ppm.gz | \
>>        ../utils/ppmtolss16 \#000000=0 \#d0d0d0=7 \#f6f6f6=15   \
>>        > syslogo.lss
>> /bin/sh: ../utils/ppmtolss16: /usr/bin/perl: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
>> make[1]: *** [syslogo.lss] Error 126
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/sample'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> Another:
>>
>> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/diag/geodsp'
>> ./mk-lba-img lba.img
>> ./mk-lba-img: ./mk-lba-img: cannot execute binary file
>> make[2]: *** [lba.img] Error 126
>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/diag/geodsp'
>> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/gzp/src/syslinux-4.04/diag'
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> $ ls -l | grep mk
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 gzp gzp  7344 Apr 18 23:25 mk-lba-img
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 gzp gzp  1554 Apr 18 23:24 mk-lba-img.c
>>
>> $ file mk-lba-img
>> mk-lba-img: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, not stripped
>>
>> 64bit? Only 32 here.
>>
>> $ ./mk-lba-img
>> bash: ./mk-lba-img: cannot execute binary file
>
> How are you building this?  lba.img was removed before the 4.04 release.

Woops.  I stand corrected.  I had prepared a fix for that and I
thought it was merged but I'm wrong.

-- 
-Gene