[syslinux] [PATCH 1/2] Drop dosutil/mdiskchk.com

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jun 24 17:31:54 PDT 2014


On 06/24/2014 03:43 AM, Gene Cumm wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak at v3.sk> wrote:
>> A prebuilt binary. Needs non-free Watcom compiler to build.
> 
> This is true however the impression I got from HPA is that the
> resulting binary is not under the same restrictions.  He made note of
> its rarity
> in 46a81bae and the resulting need to include a binary with last edits
> on 2010-06-21 in 7556a891.
> 

This is correct... the binary is not so restricted.

In fact, the only reason the binary is included in the tree at all is
because it requires a compiler which is (sadly enough) not generally
available.  Of course, perhaps the right thing do to is to convert
mdiskchk to be compiled with gcc in a manner similar to syslinux.com.

	-hpa



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