[syslinux] Build failure for isohybrid

[Geert Stappers]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 07:45:40PM +0100, Tim Fletcher wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I have been trying to debug a build failure for a while in the utils
> directory on isohybrid which seems to be distro specific.
> 
> On Fedora 17 64bit the build completes without problems, but under
> both Ubuntu 32/64bit 11.10 and 12.04 I get the following:
> 
> tim at oxygen:/usr/src/git/syslinux/utils$ make
> gcc -O2 -luuid -o isohybrid isohybrid.o isohdpfx.o
> isohybrid.o: In function `initialise_gpt':
> isohybrid.c:(.text+0xc42): undefined reference to `uuid_generate'
> isohybrid.c:(.text+0xd20): undefined reference to `uuid_generate'
> isohybrid.c:(.text+0xd2d): undefined reference to `uuid_generate'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [isohybrid] Error 1
> 
> I've done the normal googling and checking that I have the devel
> packages installed and as much debugging as I can think of.
> 
> I've tested this on 32bit Ubuntu too but I can't get access to the
> machine I tested in to remotely atm.

>From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654838 I do
understand that Ubuntu allready provided a patch for it.

I think the patch is also available in Ubuntu,
but for some reason it was not applied during Tims rebuild attempt.


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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