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

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 4 Jul 2012 at 0:24, Dag Wieers wrote:

Date sent:      	Wed, 4 Jul 2012 00:24:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:           	Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>
To:             	For discussion of Syslinux and tftp-hpa 
<syslinux at zytor.com>
Organization:   	DAGIT Linux Solutions http://dagit.net/
Copies to:      	syslinux-announce at zytor.com
Subject:        	Re: [syslinux] Syslinux 5.00-pre6: call it a beta

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> > I think the Syslinux 5.00 branch is now at the point where I believe
> > it it is feature complete and should be able to replace the main
> > Syslinux branch.
> >
> > As such, it is important that we get wider testing, and especially
> > that people let us know if and where it breaks.  As of right now,
> > there aren't any known bugs...
> 
> I tried to package 5.00-pre6 on RHEL using the known routine:
> 
>    make clean
>    make installer
>    make install-all
> 
> and I get:
> 
>    mkdir -m 755 -p
>    /home/dag/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/syslinux-5.00-0.pre6.el6.rft.i386/usr/
>    share/syslinux install -m 644 -c core/pxelinux.0 gpxe/gpxelinux.0
>    gpxe/gpxelinuxk.0 core/isolinux.bin core/isolinux-debug.bin
>    dos/syslinux.com mbr/*.bin memdisk/memdisk memdump/memdump.com
>    modules/*.com com32/menu/*.c32 com32/modules/*.c32
>    com32/mboot/*.c32 com32/hdt/*.c32 com32/rosh/*.c32
>    com32/gfxboot/*.c32 com32/sysdump/*.c32 com32/lua/src/*.c32
>    com32/chain/*.c32 com32/lib/*.c32 com32/libutil/*.c32
>    com32/gpllib/*.c32
>    /home/dag/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/syslinux-5.00-0.pre6.el6.rft.i386/usr/
>    share/syslinux install: cannot stat `com32/gpllib/*.c32': No such
>    file or directory make: *** [local-install] Error 1
> 
> When I try the more adventurous (remember, this is RHEL ;-)) routine:
> 
>    make clean
>    make spotless
>    make
>    make installer
>    make install-all
> 
> I end up with:
> 
>    mkdir -m 755 -p
>    /home/dag/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/syslinux-5.00-0.pre6.el6.rft.x86_64/us
>    r/share/syslinux/com32 install -m 644 libutil_com.a libutil_lnx.a
>    /home/dag/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/syslinux-5.00-0.pre6.el6.rft.x86_64/us
>    r/share/syslinux/com32 install: cannot stat `libutil_com.a': No
>    such file or directory
> 
> Is this expected ? Am I doing something wrong ?

Just to confirm, I did the same test on a Fedora 16 X64 system, 
and got the same results.


> 
> Kind regards,
> -- 
> -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/
> -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/
> 
> [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
> _______________________________________________
> Syslinux mailing list
> Submissions to Syslinux at zytor.com
> Unsubscribe or set options at:
> http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux
> Please do not send private replies to mailing list traffic.
> 


+----------------------------------------------------------+
  Michael D. Setzer II -  Computer Science Instructor      
  Guam Community College  Computer Center                  
  mailto:mikes at kuentos.guam.net                            
  mailto:msetzerii at gmail.com
  http://www.guam.net/home/mikes
  Guam - Where America's Day Begins                        
  G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer 
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/
+----------------------------------------------------------+

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original)
Number of Seti Units Returned:  19,471
Processing time:  32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes
(Total Hours: 287,489)

BOINC at HOME CREDITS
SETI        12478576.026067   |   EINSTEIN     8126130.399852
ROSETTA      4700152.331598   |   ABC         13965169.488956