[syslinux] Issue building Syslinux 5.01

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 14:37:49 PDT 2013


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Seetaram N T <seetaram.nt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried to build SYSLINUX 5.1 again on Fedora core 13 PC. MASM was not
> installed in this PC, so the build gave error. After installing MASM, the
> build went further and didn't complete properly but gave some errors. But
> the extlinux binary was built. What i found is that, the files i had
> mentioned libinstaller/bootsect_bin.c \
>> ../libinstaller/ldlinuxc32_bin.c \
>> ../libinstaller/ldlinux_bin will be automaically created when built
> the entire SYSLINUX. Now the extlinux binary is not running on my PC
> because of GLIBC in compatibility. The Fedora Core 13 PC where i built
> extlinux has (GNU libc) 2.12.2 where as my PC where i want to install
> extlinux 5.1 has GLIBc version GNU libc) 2.5.1.
>
> Now how to build the syslinux using GNU libc 2.5.1?
> Should i downgrade the Fedora core 13 Libc to 2.5.1 or should build on
> Fedora core which supports libc 2.5.1?
> Please suggest.
> Regards,
> Seetaram

Build on a system with older glibc. See README and doc/distrib.txt for more
info.

--
-Gene

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text,
especially the archives of mailing lists.
Q: Why is Top-posting such a bad thing?

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Seetaram N T <seetaram.nt at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have downloaded the Source code tar file in to my FEDORA Core 13 PC. I
>> didn't find any build instructions. So i run make from the syslinux
folder
>> but it gave some errors. so i went to extlinux folder and tried to build
>> using make. Here it is not finding these files.
>>
>> Please let me know how to build extlinux?
>> Regards,
>> Seetaram
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:00 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 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


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