[syslinux] trouble building 6.03

[Geert Stappers]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:21:32PM -0800, Patrick Masotta wrote:
> sudo apt-get install build-essential
> sudo apt-get build-dep gcc-multilib
> sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib
> 
> sudo apt-get install nasm
> sudo apt-get install uuid-dev
> 
> I run
> #make spotless
> #make
> 
> but it consistently fails at 
> 
> make[3]: Entering directory `/syslinux-6.03/efi32/efi'
> Building gnu-efi for ia32
> /syslinux-6.03/efi/check-gnu-efi.sh ia32 /syslinux-6.03/efi32
> Failed to build gnu-efi. Execute the following command for full details:
> 
> build-gnu-efi.sh ia32 /syslinux-6.03/efi32
> 
> make[3]: *** [/syslinux-6.03/efi32/lib/libefi.a] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/syslinux-6.03/efi32/efi'
> make[2]: *** [efi] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/syslinux-6.03/efi32'
> make[1]: *** [efi32] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/syslinux-6.03'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> Do I have to install anything else? does this problem sound familiar?

FWIW  git source plus patch from  Philippe Coval from 2014-12-17
did just build fine twice an "apt-get system".




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Geert Stappers
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