[syslinux] How to make isolinux.bin only?

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 13:23:20 PDT 2012


On Sep 4, 2012 8:22 AM, "Tomas M" <tomas at slax.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I wish to recompile only isolinux.bin and nothing else.
>
> I made some changes to core/fs/lib/loadconfig.c and now I wish to make
> (compile) isolinux.bin only.
>
> The only way how to do it seems to be "make" in the directory of
> syslinux sources.
> But this takes very long and compiles everything.

If you've already run make once, rerunning is the most effective method.
If you have not, I believe you will lack too many intermediate build files
to be successful.

Judicious use of jobbing helps.  'make -j 4' is a good start.

--Gene



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