[syslinux] Problems compiling syslinux on Debian 10

[William R. Somsky]

The patches I used were from the Rocky Linux 8 source rpm,
syslinux-6.04-5.el8.src.rpm (forget the exact url to fetch)

- WRSomsky


On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 12:38:43PM -0400, Dave Henderson wrote:
> Are those patches available for download William?  I would like to acquire all
> the patches I can for syslinux.  Our OS (XiniX) uses it too and would like to
> continue using it as long as possible.
> 
> 
> Is anyone else aware of patches for syslinux that I can obtain (aside from
> the one from Debian that Tom linked to)?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/20/22 16:15, William R. Somsky via Syslinux wrote:
> > We're running on Rocky Linux 8, so I'm not sure if it is applicable, but
> > we use syslinux w/ lua scripts on our installation USB-keys and needed to
> > tweak around a bug in the lua interpreter (output on the screen fails/is
> > invisible).  I was successfully able to compile syslinux from the Rocky 8
> > source rpm which is based on syslinux 6.05-pre1 plus a few patches.
> > 
> > -WRSomsky
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 08:00:39AM +0000, Didier Spaier via Syslinux wrote:
> > > 
> > > Le 20/10/2022 à 01:38, Tom Lisjac a écrit :
> > > > Hi Tom,
> > > > 
> > > > why not use or re-build the package shipped in Debian 10?
> > > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://packages.debian.org/buster/syslinux__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jUYGmJNSgQ_V6iKFbktpNSIB5ic1zMyEYh3ygOKfw3hyozOzvEDs03_LSU4SKCjwAgnK_Ti1mKhr7BE59Q$
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Didier
> > > > --
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for the suggestion, Didier. Tried their tarball and got a different type of error for 6.04:
> > > > 
> > > > ld -m elf_i386  -T /home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/mbr/i386/mbr.ld -e _start -o mbr.elf mbr.o
> > > > objcopy -O binary mbr.elf mbr.bin
> > > > perl /home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/mbr/checksize.pl mbr.bin
> > > > mbr.bin: too big (452 > 440)
> > > > make[3]: *** [/home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/mbr/Makefile:42: mbr.bin] Error 1
> > > > make[2]: *** [/home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/Makefile:288: mbr] Error 2
> > > > make[1]: *** [/home/dev/syslinux/syslinux-6.04~git20190206.bf6db5b4/Makefile:257: bios] Error 2
> > > > make: *** [Makefile:102: all] Error 2
> > > > 
> > > > None of the errors I've seen look like dependency or toolchain issues. At this point it would help to know the best place to find GA releases and if someone can point to a recent version and build environment that will successfully compile it.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > 
> > > > -Tom
> > > Did you apply the patches in this archive:
> > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/syslinux/syslinux_6.04*git20190206.bf6db5b4*dfsg1-1.debian.tar.xz__;fis!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jUYGmJNSgQ_V6iKFbktpNSIB5ic1zMyEYh3ygOKfw3hyozOzvEDs03_LSU4SKCjwAgnK_Ti1mKho9ViNhA$
> > > ?
> > > If not, please do it.
> > > If yes I suggest that you file a bug on the Debian bug tracker.
> > > 
> > > Sorry I can't help you beyond that, not running Debian (and havin switched to
> > > GRUB2 for Legacy and EFI booting long ago in Slint, https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://slint.fr__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!jUYGmJNSgQ_V6iKFbktpNSIB5ic1zMyEYh3ygOKfw3hyozOzvEDs03_LSU4SKCjwAgnK_Ti1mKh3nhipxw$  ).
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Didier
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