[syslinux] Building syslinux 4.04 on a 32bit system

[Per Jessen]

Gene Cumm wrote:

> 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.

I guess it's just habit - when I download source code, I build it :-)


/Per Jessen, Zürich