[syslinux] 6.03-pre6 minor building suggestions

[Gene Cumm]

On Mar 15, 2014 4:39 PM, "Ady" <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > On Mar 4, 2014 7:42 PM, "Ady" <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > > > _ The bios/dosutil/ directory contains copybs.com and eltorito.sys,
> > > > while the efi32/ and efi64/ don't, which is expected. OTOH,
> > > > mdiskchk.com is being created under the main dosutil/ directory. I
> > > > think that 'mdiskchk.com' should be created under the bios/dosutil/
> > > > subdirectory, just as copybs.com and eltorito.sys are. I am unsure
> > > > whether 'dosutil/README' and 'dosutil/eltorito.txt' should be also
> > > > copied to 'bios/dosutil/' when building.
> >
> > It's a binary object in the source tree. The closest alternative is to
try
> > copying to the bios/ path.
> >
>
> Isn't this binary file built from 'mdiskchk.c' located in the same
> directory? Evidently I lack the knowledge to understand why this is
> so different from other binary files.

http://git.zytor.com/?p=syslinux/syslinux.git;a=history;f=dosutil/mdiskchk.com;h=22ccfe5fcdca4e3c40d88b0d20b4fbb321b22299;hb=c9ec0d59759721ba363a16f1af1b639aa57527b5

That binary its over 3 years old and hasn't been recompiled in that time.

--Gene