[syslinux] Syslinux 6.00 released

[Igor Sverkos]

Hi,

seems like there is a problem in gnu-efi Makefiles:

When you are not on Debian, this will be installed (from
$source/inc/Makefile, called from $source/Makefile):

  install:
  	mkdir -p $(INSTALLROOT)$(PREFIX)/include/efi
  	mkdir -p $(INSTALLROOT)$(PREFIX)/include/efi/protocol
  	mkdir -p $(INSTALLROOT)$(PREFIX)/include/efi/$(ARCH)
  	$(INSTALL) -m 644 *.h $(INSTALLROOT)$(PREFIX)/include/efi
  	$(INSTALL) -m 644 protocol/*.h $(INSTALLROOT)$(PREFIX)/include/efi/protocol
  	$(INSTALL) -m 644 $(ARCH)/*.h $(INSTALLROOT)$(PREFIX)/include/efi/$(ARCH)
  ifeq ($(ARCH),ia64)
  	mkdir -p $(INSTALLROOT)$(PREFIX)/include/efi/protocol/ia64
  	$(INSTALL) -m 644 protocol/ia64/*.h
$(INSTALLROOT)$(PREFIX)/include/efi/protocol/ia64
  endif

So if you are not on ia32/ia64, no ia32/ia64 headers will be installed.

But on Debian (from $source/Debian/Makefile):

  install: build
  	dh_testdir
  	dh_testroot
  	dh_clean -k
  	dh_installdirs -A

  	# gnu-efi files
   	cp -r inc/* debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/
  	rm debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/Makefile
  	rm debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/inc.mak
  	rm debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/make.inf
  	rm debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/makefile.hdr
  	rm debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/protocol/make.inf
  	rm debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/protocol/makefile.hdr
  	rm debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/protocol/readme.txt
  ifeq ($(buildarch),ia64)
  	rm -rf debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/ia32
  	rm -rf debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/x84_64
  else
  	rm -rf debian/gnu-efi/usr/include/efi/ia64
  endif

  [...]

Debian will copy *everything* from inc. When it is an ia64 system,
they will remove the ia32 and x84_64 headers (so you should be unable
to build syslinux in ia64 on Debian, too).

This will raise the question: Why does syslinux require these headers
if you don't build for these archs? This would require gnu-efi too
install headers for every arch, not only the arch you are on...

But maybe I am totally wrong :)


-- 
Regards,
Igor