[syslinux] Problems compiling syslinux on Debian 10

[Gregory Bartholomew]

It looks like Fedora is still maintaining a small patch set to get 6.04 to
compile on Fedora Linux.

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/syslinux/tree/rawhide

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:38 PM William R. Somsky via Syslinux <
syslinux at syslinux.org> wrote:

>
> 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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