[syslinux] Syslinux 4.04-pre14: anything missing please holler

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Wed Mar 23 10:14:03 PDT 2011


On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Dag Wieers wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>>  On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Gene Cumm wrote:
>> 
>> >   Dag, did you do 'make spotless', 'make', then 'make installer'?  If I
>> >   recall correctly, you'll need to upgrade nasm and possibly gcc and
>> >   binutils to build from source on CentOS 5.x but I'm not sure on the
>> >   preferred method.
>>
>>  Yes, using RHEL6.
>
> I have to correct myself. It does work correctly on RHEL6 (not sure what I 
> did wrong yesterday-night, but it was quite late). But RHEL5 and older or a 
> no-go.
>
> Will test the result later and will let the list know.

The problem does not occur when doing a complete rebuild (make spotless, 
make, make installer) on RHEL6 using what ships with it:

     gcc-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64
     nasm-2.07-7.el6.x86_64

But the build fails on RHEL5 and older because of too old nasm.

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