[syslinux] EFI build problems

[Gene Cumm]

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Gene Cumm <gene.cumm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Ferenc Wagner <wferi at niif.hu> wrote:
>
>> * make spotless still fails after working around the above:
>>   [...]
>>   make -r -C efi SRC="/home/wferi/syslinux/syslinux/efi" OBJ="/home/wferi/syslinux/syslinux/efi32/efi" \
>>                 -f /home/wferi/syslinux/syslinux/efi/Makefile spotless
>>   In file included from /usr/include/elf.h:24:0,
>>                    from reloc_ia32.c:39:
>>   /usr/include/features.h:323:26: fatal error: bits/predefs.h: No such file or directory
>>   compilation terminated.
>>   make[4]: *** [reloc_ia32.o] Error 1
>>   make[3]: *** [gnuefi] Error 2
>>   make[3]: Entering directory `/home/wferi/syslinux/syslinux/efi32/efi'
>>   /home/wferi/syslinux/syslinux/mk/efi.mk:27: *** Failed to build gnu-efi for ia32.  Stop.
>>   make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/wferi/syslinux/syslinux/efi32/efi'
>>   make[2]: *** [efi] Error 2
>>   [...]
>
> This is a build-system bug in mk/efi.mk.  I'm looking at adding a
> condition to prevent this.

Would you perhaps be building on an x86_64 OS (as shown by 'gcc
-dumpmachine') but not have gcc-multilib installed?

-- 
-Gene