[syslinux] [PATCH] README: documenting the need for /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h

Matt Fleming matt at console-pimps.org
Mon Oct 15 00:52:22 PDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 21:36 +0200, Geert Stappers wrote:
> utils/isohybrid build depens on /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h
> The package name varies between distribution families.
> ---
>  README |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Applied, thanks. This is the patch I committed which includes a couple
of spelling corrections and drops the "is built by default" since I'm
unaware of a way to *not* build utils/isohybrid. Does it look OK?

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>From 1ece228d9f133791b3d63d6996e475a1ad695af3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Geert Stappers <stappers at stappers.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:36:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] README: document the need for /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h

utils/isohybrid build depends on /usr/include/uuid/uuid.h The package
name varies between distribution families.
---
 README | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 08a82e4..1b7c2d3 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ SYSLINUX now builds in a Linux environment, using nasm.  You need nasm
 version 2.03 or later (2.07 or later recommended) to build SYSLINUX
 from source.  See http://www.nasm.us/ for information about nasm.
 
+"utils/isohybrid" needs the header file,
+
+	/usr/include/uuid/uuid.h
+
+You can get it from the "uuid-dev" package on Debian based systems or
+from the "libuuid-devel" package on RPM based distributions.
+
 There is now a mailing list for SYSLINUX.  See the end of syslinux.txt
 for details.
 
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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center




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