[syslinux] Building syslinux 4.04 on a 32bit system

[Gene Cumm]

On Nov 26, 2011 5:13 AM, "Gilles Espinasse" <g.esp at free.fr> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Per Jessen" <per at computer.org>
> To: <syslinux at zytor.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 9:55 AM
> Subject: [syslinux] Building syslinux 4.04 on a 32bit system
>
>
> > I thougt somebody might like to know - I got a fresh copy of 4.04 from
> > http://www.kernel.org/ - when building on a 32bit system, the build
> > fails at first. I had to do a "make spotless" to get a successful
> > build.
> >
> doc/distrib.txt explain why it is recommended to compile only installer in
> most cases.

Per, your broken toolchain is a main reason why this is the
recommendation.  Rebuilding can produce unpredictable results.

> On a 32bits system, it was working for me with 4.0.4-pre1{3,4} (which were
> precompiled by a broken compiler) to compile again ldlinux.asm using make
> spotless && make
> I have actually no reason to recompile final 4.0.4 ldlinux.asm.
>
> Gilles

The only reason I personally don't use the precompiled binaries is if I
testing something specific.  Even on USB flash drives that only I use, I
still use the official ones.

On Nov 26, 2011 3:57 AM, "Per Jessen" <per at computer.org> wrote:
> ./mk-lba-img is a 64bit executable, presumably left by a previous build.

I fixed my error with a Perl script instead of native binary and that fix
is in 4.05-pre1 and newer.

--
-Gene