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

[Matt Fleming]

On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 00:24 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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/usr/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/usr/share/syslinux/com32
>    install: cannot stat `libutil_com.a': No such file or directory
> 
> Is this expected ? Am I doing something wrong ?

Nope, this isn't expect and you're not doing anything wrong.

I just pushed a fix for this install problem to my elflink branch. Could
you try build and install using that?