[syslinux] Building extlinux (Syslinux 6.03-pre11)

[Alexey Orishko]

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder why the already built-in binaries are not enough / adequate.
> Or, in other words, I am curious about why do you need to build your
> own binary files, instead of using the files that are already there
> in the official archives in kernel.org.

I don't believe it can be used as is:
bash# file syslinux
syslinux: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically
 linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,
BuildID[sha1]=0xe82a9430ce7456cfea7bcc877fa694740296c2a8, stripped

bash# ./syslinux
bash: ./syslinux: No such file or directory

I have a minimal 64-bit system, where 32-bit libraries are not present.

Second, I'd rather use git instead of kernel.org due to the following statement
published earlier in one of the threads:
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> 5:30 AM (15 hours ago)
> to 牟流, syslinux
>
> Please work on the current git, rather than 6.02... 6.02 has a number of
> known problems.

If you could explain a solution for both, I would gladly use binary provided.

Regards,
Alexey