[syslinux] Issue building Syslinux 5.01

[Gene Cumm]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 11:19 PM, Seetaram N T <seetaram.nt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried precompiled binaries of extlinux 5.01 but it didn't work as these
> are built using GLIBC 2.7 and my Pc has glibc 2.5.
> When i tried to build the extlinux, there are some files which are missing
> in the source code i downloaded. These files are
> ../libinstaller/bootsect_bin.c \
>     ../libinstaller/ldlinuxc32_bin.c \
>     ../libinstaller/ldlinux_bin.
>
> Please suggest me how to resolve this issue.

How are you building it?  You can't build _just_ extlinux.

--
-Gene

> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:42 PM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Seetaram N T <seetaram.nt at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> >
>> > i have downloaded SYSLINUX 5.01 from kernel.org. i am trying to build
>> > extlinux. i an not able to find the files ../libinstaller/bootsect_bin.c
>> \
>> >     ../libinstaller/ldlinuxc32_bin.c \    ../libinstaller/ldlinux_bin.c
>> > which are refered in extlinux Makefile. Please suggest where to get these
>> > files?
>>
>> These are build by the build system.  Did you try the precompiled
>> binaries?  How are you attempting to build Syslinux?
>>
>> --
>> -Gene