[syslinux] syslinux 5.00 does not build

[Shao Miller]

On 1/3/2013 22:26, László Házy wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 10:21 PM, Shao Miller wrote:
>> On 1/3/2013 21:19, László Házy wrote:
>>> I am trying to build an RPM starting from the TAR archive. The relevant
>>> error is:
>>>
>>> make[1]: Entering directory
>>> `/tmp1/Software/rpmbuild/BUILD/syslinux-5.00/libinstaller'
>>> perl bin2c.pl syslinux_bootsect < ../core/ldlinux.bss > bootsect_bin.c
>>> perl bin2c.pl syslinux_ldlinux 512 < ../core/ldlinux.sys > ldlinux_bin.c
>>> perl bin2c.pl syslinux_mbr < ../mbr/mbr.bin > mbr_bin.c
>>> perl bin2c.pl syslinux_gptmbr < ../mbr/gptmbr.bin > gptmbr_bin.c
>>> make[1]: *** No rule to make target
>>> `../com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.c32', needed by `ldlinuxc32_bin.c'.
>>> Stop.
>>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>>> `/tmp1/Software/rpmbuild/BUILD/syslinux-5.00/libinstaller'
>>> make: *** [installer] Error 2
>>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48441 (%build)
>>>
>>>
>>> Sure enough, syslinux-5.00/libinstaller/Makefile contains
>>>
>>>     ldlinuxc32_bin.c: ../com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.c32 bin2c.pl
>>>          $(PERL) bin2c.pl syslinux_ldlinuxc32 < $< > $@
>>>
>>> However, there is no ../com32/elflink/ldlinux/ldlinux.c32 in the TAR
>>> archive.
>>>
>>> Did anybody ever check that syslinux 5.00 actually builds? Any
>>> suggestions? Just comment out the rule in the Makefile?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>
>> I'm sure Matt Fleming did.  I've built it, too.
>>
>> But what does building an RPM have to do with using the Syslinux
>> Makefiles in the .tar archive?  Is not everything built for you
>> already in that archive?
>
> I downloaded a .tar.gz, which normally contains the sources. Unpacked,
> it does look like the sources. So I want to build an RPM. When trying
> (via rpmbuild), it does the build (using the Makefiles), and that breaks.
>

What was the link?  A Syslinux release includes both sources and 
binaries, so perhaps you needn't compile anything.  But if you really 
want/need to, perhaps the 'rpmbuild' process is invoking 'make' in such 
a way as to build things in a different order than a normal 'make' 
invocation would.

- Shao Miller