[syslinux] Syslinux 5.00-pre6: call it a beta

[Matt Fleming]

On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 15:55 -0400, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 19:26 +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
> >> Hallo, H. Peter,
> >>
> >> Du meintest am 01.07.12:
> >>
> >> >> Yes - I know.
> >> >> But offering the full blown *.iso with 700 MByte may be no good
> >> >> solution.
> >> >>
> >>
> >> > 700 MB isn't that much anymore.
> >>
> >> Ok - you may try
> >>
> >>    ftp://hullen.hopto.org/ods-v5.4.09.iso
> >>    ftp://hullen.hopto.org/ods-5.4.09-md5sum.txt
> >
> > Could you try loading libcom32.c32 manually and then vesamenu.c32 and
> > see what errors are reported?
> >
> > libcom32.c32 provides the vesacon_set_background function.
> 
> Do you just load it like any other COM32 and it should then provide
> things?  If so, there's something wrong (perhaps stripped symbols or
> other build issue).  (yes, I have the ISO).

vesamenu.c32 you just load like any other COM32 module, but vesamenu.c32
should have ELF DT_NEEDED entries that list the dynamic libraries
required to fixup any undefined symbols - like vesacon_set_background().
In other words, libcom32.c32 should automatically be loaded when loading
vesamenu.c32.