[syslinux] Syslinux 6.04-pre1

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/08/16 09:41, Shao Miller wrote:
> On 3/8/2016 12:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> On 03/08/16 08:58, Shao Miller via Syslinux wrote:
>>> While building on AMD64 CentOS 6, I noticed that glibc-devel.i686 was
>>> needed for some (U)EFI stuff, but isn't in the README.  I'm not sure if
>>> other Linux flavours will have counterpart needs.  - Shao
>> Hmmm... that makes me somewhat nervous.  I'm wondering if we're pulling
>> in stuff we should not.
> 
> The nearby stuff was:
> 
>> make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux/efi32/gnu-efi/lib'
>> mkdir -p gnuefi
>> make -C gnuefi -f
>> /usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/gnuefi/Makefile
>> SRCDIR=/usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/gnuefi ARCH=ia32
>> make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux/efi32/gnu-efi/gnuefi'
>> /usr/bin/gcc -m32 -DCONFIG_ia32  -c -o crt0-efi-ia32.o
>> /usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/gnuefi/crt0-efi-ia32.S
>> /usr/bin/gcc -I/usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/gnuefi
>> -I/usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/inc
>> -I/usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/inc/ia32
>> -I/usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/inc/protocol -mno-mmx -mno-sse
>> -m32 -O2 -fpic -Wall -fshort-wchar -fno-strict-aliasing
>> -fno-merge-constants -ffreestanding -fno-stack-protector
>> -fno-stack-check -DCONFIG_ia32 -c
>> /usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/gnuefi/reloc_ia32.c -o reloc_ia32.o
>> In file included from /usr/include/features.h:385,
>>                  from /usr/include/elf.h:24,
>>                  from
>> /usr/src/syslinux/gnu-efi/gnu-efi-3.0/gnuefi/reloc_ia32.c:39:
>> /usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:7:27: error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or
>> directory
>> make[5]: *** [reloc_ia32.o] Error 1
>> make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux/efi32/gnu-efi/gnuefi'
>> make[4]: *** [gnuefi] Error 2
>> make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux/efi32/gnu-efi'
>> Failed to build gnu-efi. Execute the following command for full details:
>>
>> build-gnu-efi.sh ia32 /usr/src/syslinux/efi32
>>

I think reloc_ia32.c is probably a host program, which I guess means it
is time to deal with "host" vs "target" compiler (or in autoconf
terminology, "build" vs "host".)  I'm suspecting that using autoconf for
Syslinux is probably inevitable.

	-hpa