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I recommend someone verify that tar.gz and tar.xz files ( at https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ ) unpack without errors. (I assume use of compression is in hope of saving download bandwidth) Regards

...y required version 6.0.4-pre1 instead. > (I don't know whether it would have been compatible) > I tried a more flexible script, but it had trouble unpacking > syslinux-6.04-pre1.tar.xz for application; on inspection of the log, I found > incomplete unpacking - at least 1 file (named advconst?) was compressed to > zero-length. > I suspect this was an error - the zip file worked. > (It may be the only such occurrence; I haven't checked other files.) No issue in the tarball. Please check your extractor/file system. lrwxrwxrwx hpa/hpa 0 2016-03-02 00:06 syslinux-6...

...t;> (I don't know whether it would have been compatible) >>> I tried a more flexible script, but it had trouble unpacking >>> syslinux-6.04-pre1.tar.xz for application; on inspection of the log, I >>> found >>> incomplete unpacking - at least 1 file (named advconst?) was compressed >>> to >>> zero-length. >>> I suspect this was an error - the zip file worked. >>> (It may be the only such occurrence; I haven't checked other files.) >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ &...

...______ >>>>> >>>>> ? >>>>> I ? tried a more flexible script, but it had trouble unpacking >>>>> syslinux-6.04-pre1.tar.xz for application; on inspection of the log, I found >>>>> incomplete unpacking - at least 1 file (named advconst?) was compressed to >>>>> zero-length. >>>>> I suspect this was an error - the zip file worked. >>>>> ? >>>> >>>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>>> ? advconst.h ? It's a sy...

So there seem to be some shortcomings in NTFS, still. 1. Symlinks are not supported. Proper symlinks exist in NTFS since Vista, so we should support them. 2. readdir() seems to be broken. I have been using the following test load to generate disk images: http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/syslinux/exttest-20140521.tar.xz Anyone who has been involved with the NTFS code who has a chance to take a

...s no build out there that I can find for 32- and 64- bit WinPE flavors, and building my own from the code at git://git.zytor.com/users/sha0/syslinux.git/win32/mdiskchk has been a bit challenging: In file included from ../libinstaller/syslinux.h:17, from syslinux.c:28:../libinstaller/advconst.h:2: error: expected ?=?, ?,?, ?;?, ?asm? or ?__attribute__? before numeric constantsyslinux.c: In function ?main?: Has anyone successfully built these executables, or can someone suggest a better path to take? Thanks! jml

...t; can find for 32- and 64- bit WinPE flavors, and building my own > from the code at > git://git.zytor.com/users/sha0/syslinux.git/win32/mdiskchk has > been a bit challenging: In file included from > ../libinstaller/syslinux.h:17, from > syslinux.c:28:../libinstaller/advconst.h:2: error: expected `=?, > `,?, `;?, `asm? or `__attribute__? before numeric > constantsyslinux.c: In function `main?: Has anyone successfully > built these executables, or can someone suggest a better path to > take? > Thanks! > jml I can see 1 branch in Shao's...