Syslinux - Feb 2008 - SYSLINUX 3.61 released

Changes in 3.61:
	* EXTLINUX: fix crash when accessing an empty file.
	* elf.c32: If a PHDR segment is present, load it.
	* Fix SHA-1 and MD5 passwords.
	* ISOLINUX: fix booting when mastered without
	  mkisofs -boot-info-table (broken since 3.50, sigh...)
	* Handle BIOSes which emit multiple contiguous valid
	  memory regions in the e820 map.

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Title:		syslinux
Version:	3.61
Entered-date:	2008-02-03

Description:	SYSLINUX is a collection of boot loaders for the Linux
		operating system which operates off Linux ext2/3
		filesystems, MS-DOS FAT filesystems, network servers
		using PXE firmware, or from CD-ROMs.  The FAT
		filesystem version can be installed from DOS, NT, or
		Linux.

		It includes a sophisticated API for add-on "COM32"
		modules, including a significant subset of the
		standard C library.

		It also includes MEMDISK, a tool to boot legacy
		operating systems from nontraditional media like PXE
		or CD-ROM.

Keywords:	syslinux pxelinux isolinux extlinux msdos boot loader
		floppy install network ext2 ext3 pxe iso9660 cdfs
		memdisk com32
Author:		hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Maintained-by:	hpa at zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Primary-site:	ftp.kernel.org /pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux
		2098157 syslinux-3.61.tar.gz
		2417616 syslinux-3.61.zip
Platforms:	DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and nasm 0.98.39 or
		later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL
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On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Changes in 3.61:
> 	* EXTLINUX: fix crash when accessing an empty file.
> 	* elf.c32: If a PHDR segment is present, load it.
> 	* Fix SHA-1 and MD5 passwords.
> 	* ISOLINUX: fix booting when mastered without
> 	  mkisofs -boot-info-table (broken since 3.50, sigh...)
> 	* Handle BIOSes which emit multiple contiguous valid
> 	  memory regions in the e820 map.
Since this release, I am unable to build extlinux on RHEL3 and RH9 because
of the following compile error:

	gcc -Wp,-MT,extlinux.o,-MMD,.extlinux.o.d -W -Wall -Wno-sign-compare
-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g -Os -I. -I.. -I../libinstaller -c -o extlinux.o
extlinux.c
	In file included from /usr/include/linux/vfs.h:4,
	                 from /usr/include/linux/fs.h:14,
	                 from extlinux.c:43:
	/usr/include/asm/statfs.h:12: redefinition of `struct statfs'
	make[1]: *** [extlinux.o] Error 1
	make[1]: Leaving directory `/dar/build/syslinux-3.61/extlinux'
	make: *** [installer] Error 2

The following patch seems to fix the problem:

	--- extlinux/extlinux.c.orig	2008-02-04 05:58:50.000000000 +0100
	+++ extlinux/extlinux.c	2008-01-11 07:42:10.000000000 +0100
	@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@
	 #include <sys/stat.h>
	 #include <sys/types.h>
	 #include <sys/mount.h>
	-#include <sys/vfs.h>

	 #include <linux/fd.h>		/* Floppy geometry */
	 #include <linux/hdreg.h>	/* Hard disk geometry */

Kind regards,
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