[syslinux] trouble building at efi/check-gnu-efi.sh

[Geert Stappers]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 05:05:36AM -0800, Patrick Masotta wrote:
> ok I'm not building from git; I just downloaded/extracted "syslinux-6.03.tar.gz" into a directory and build it from there.
> Now I've erased the "> /dev/null 2>&1 " from check-gnu-efi.sh and I'm getting.
> 
> fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
> Failed to build gnu-efi. Execute the following command for full details:
> 
> 
> I do not want to build from git; I want to have a set of source files that can make my Syslinux builds 
> consistent all the time.
> I understand Syslinux is picky about the version of gnu-efi used then;
> why not to distribute the gnu-efi source that is used on 6.03?
> What should I do in order to get the missing efi code base not depending on git??


$ LANG=C apt-get source syslinux
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
NOTICE: 'syslinux' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system at:
git://daniel-baumann.ch/git/debian/packages/syslinux.git
Need to get 7235 kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main syslinux 3:6.03+dfsg-4 (dsc) [2306 B]
Get:2 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main syslinux 3:6.03+dfsg-4 (tar) [7203 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main syslinux 3:6.03+dfsg-4 (diff) [29.4 kB]                          
Fetched 7235 kB in 27s (268 kB/s)                                                                                   
dpkg-source: info: extracting syslinux in syslinux-6.03+dfsg
dpkg-source: info: unpacking syslinux_6.03+dfsg.orig.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: unpacking syslinux_6.03+dfsg-4.debian.tar.xz
dpkg-source: info: applying 0001-digest-sha.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 0002-gfxboot-menu-label.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 0003-extlinux-manpage.patch
dpkg-source: info: applying 0004-gnu-efi-git.patch


> Thanks a lot.

Enjoy the benefits of apt-get



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Geert Stappers
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