Syslinux - Jun 2008 - Last call for Syslinux 3.70

Hi all,

I have just released syslinux-3.70-pre25.  Unless someone has something 
big and scary that either I have managed to miss or was just stumbled 
over, I'm going to release 3.70 final some time between tomorrow and Monday.

Thus, *please holler now* if there are any stop-ship problems still known...

	-hpa

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just released syslinux-3.70-pre25.  Unless someone has something 
> big and scary that either I have managed to miss or was just stumbled 
> over, I'm going to release 3.70 final some time between tomorrow and
Monday.
> 
> Thus, *please holler now* if there are any stop-ship problems still
known...
Meh.  Found a bad bug in ISOLINUX.  Pushing out 3.70-pre26 now...

	-hpa

5:44pm H. Peter Anvin said:
> I have just released syslinux-3.70-pre25.  Unless someone has something
> big and scary that either I have managed to miss or was just stumbled
> over, I'm going to release 3.70 final some time between tomorrow and
Monday.
>
> Thus, *please holler now* if there are any stop-ship problems still
known...
I've only started testing this week. But on a ProLiant DL360 G5 with the 
iLO Advanced license, the KVM doesn't work. However, physical keyboard on 
PS2 will wake it up and then KVM starts working. Showstopper if your 
server is anywhere beyond your arms length. :-(

Also, re-loading gpxelinux.0 from menu will cause it to hand the second 
time around. This is already known, right?

../C

Hi, 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com 
> [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of H. Peter Anvin
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 1:45 AM
> To: SYSLINUX Mailing list
> Subject: [syslinux] Last call for Syslinux 3.70
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have just released syslinux-3.70-pre25.  Unless someone has 
> something big and scary that either I have managed to miss or 
> was just stumbled over, I'm going to release 3.70 final some 
> time between tomorrow and Monday.
> 
> Thus, *please holler now* if there are any stop-ship problems 
> still known...
> 
> 	-hpa
This is _not_ a syslinux problem, but I was trying to test it in Windoze and
came up with the following issue, gPXE uses both a config folder and a
Config file in the 'src' folder.

Of course doze is dumb as hell and can't cope with both a file and folder
having the same name...
>From what I've seen so far, the Config file is being deprecated in favor
of
config.h .

Since windows won't probably be able to compile gPXE, this isn't a real
issue...

Don't let this stop 3.70 from being released, just make a note somewhere
that you won't be able to decompress syslinux anymore under a windows
machine and that you'll need something other to compile gPXE.

here's my 0.02?

Luis Correia

* "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>:

| Gabor, what kind of file system was holding your source tree?

ext3. Damaged?

* "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>:

| > Linux gzp1 2.4.36.6-gzp1 #1 SMP Sat Jun 7 08:43:14 CEST 2008 i686
GNU/Linux
| > GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6, by Roland McGrath et al.
| > gcc (GCC) 4.2.4
| > GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.18.50.0.7.20080502

| What distro is this, and if so, has it been modified at all
| (i.e. should I be able to set up a VM with the same distro and
| replicate this)?

LFS

| Also, if you could give me a make trace with "make V=1" I would
| greatly appreciate it (it makes gPXE spit out more make info.)


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
To: "SYSLINUX Mailing list" <syslinux at zytor.com>
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 2:44 AM
Subject: [syslinux] Last call for Syslinux 3.70

> Hi all,
>
> I have just released syslinux-3.70-pre25.  Unless someone has something
> big and scary that either I have managed to miss or was just stumbled
> over, I'm going to release 3.70 final some time between tomorrow and
Monday.
>
> Thus, *please holler now* if there are any stop-ship problems still
known...
>
> -hpa
>
Doing
make clean
make
make installer
make install

With LFS-5.1 gcc-3.3.3, binutils-2.15.90.0.3, nasm-0.98.39 or nasm-2.03.01,
it fail with
...
  [BUILD] bin/librm.o
  [BUILD] bin/bImageprefix.o
  [BUILD] bin/bootpart.o
  [BUILD] bin/comprefix.o
  [BUILD] bin/dskprefix.o
  [BUILD] bin/elf_dprefix.o
  [BUILD] bin/elfprefix.o
  [BUILD] bin/exeprefix.o
  [BUILD] bin/hdprefix.o
  [BUILD] bin/kpxeprefix.o
  [BUILD] bin/libprefix.o
arch/i386/prefix/libprefix.S: Assembler messages:
arch/i386/prefix/libprefix.S:297: Error: `( -pm_call_vars_size+( (gdt)-
pm_call_vars))(%eax,%edi)' is not a valid 16 bit base/index expression
make[3]: *** [bin/libprefix.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/gpxe/src'
make[2]: *** [gpxelinux.0] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/gpxe'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
make: *** [/usr/src/log/syslinux-3.70-pre26] Error 2

With LFS 6-dev gcc-4.2.3, binutils-2.18, nasm-0.98.39 and same
make clean && make && make installer && make install
it fail with
...
cd /usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26 && make installer
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
set -e ; for i in ; do make -r -C $i all ; done
make -r installer-local
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `installer-local'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
set -e ; for i in mtools linux extlinux utils com32 sample; do make -r -C $i
all ; done
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/mtools'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/mtools'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/linux'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/linux'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/extlinux'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/extlinux'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/utils'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/utils'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32'
set -e; for d in lib libutil modules menu samples; do make -C $d all; done
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/lib'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/lib'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/libutil'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/libutil'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/modules'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/modules'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/menu'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/menu'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/samples'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/samples'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/sample'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/sample'
ls -l version.gen version.h mbr/mbr.bin mbr/gptmbr.bin core/pxelinux.0
core/isolinux.bin core/isolinux-debug.bin gpxe/gpxelinux.0 dos/syslinux.com
win32/syslinux.exe memdisk/memdisk memdump/memdump.com  dos/copybs.com
utils/gethostip utils/mkdiskimage mtools/syslinux linux/syslinux
extlinux/extlinux
ls: cannot access win32/syslinux.exe: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 13065 Jun 28 00:30 core/isolinux-debug.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 12421 Jun 28 00:30 core/isolinux.bin
-rwxrwxr-x 1 1026 1026 15522 Jun 28 00:30 core/pxelinux.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026   408 Jun 27 01:52 dos/copybs.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 21420 Jun 28 00:32 dos/syslinux.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 54621 Jun 28 00:32 extlinux/extlinux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1026 58492 Jun 28 00:32 gpxe/gpxelinux.0
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root 1026 24084 Jun 28 00:32 linux/syslinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026   424 Jun 28 00:30 mbr/gptmbr.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026   404 Jun 28 00:30 mbr/mbr.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026 20044 Jun 28 00:30 memdisk/memdisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026  5400 Jun 28 00:30 memdump/memdump.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 24104 Jun 28 00:32 mtools/syslinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026  3888 Jun 28 00:32 utils/gethostip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026  8325 Jun 28 00:32 utils/mkdiskimage
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026    64 Jun 27 01:51 version.gen
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026    64 Jun 27 01:51 version.h
make[1]: [installer] Error 2 (ignored)
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
cd /usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26 && make install
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
set -e ; for i in ; do make -r -C $i all ; done
make -r installer-local
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `installer-local'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
set -e ; for i in mtools linux extlinux utils com32 sample; do make -r -C $i
all ; done
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/mtools'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/mtools'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/linux'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/linux'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/extlinux'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/extlinux'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/utils'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/utils'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32'
set -e; for d in lib libutil modules menu samples; do make -C $d all; done
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/lib'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/lib'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/libutil'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/libutil'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/modules'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/modules'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/menu'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/menu'
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/samples'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32/samples'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/com32'
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/sample'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/sample'
ls -l version.gen version.h mbr/mbr.bin mbr/gptmbr.bin core/pxelinux.0
core/isolinux.bin core/isolinux-debug.bin gpxe/gpxelinux.0 dos/syslinux.com
win32/syslinux.exe memdisk/memdisk memdump/memdump.com  dos/copybs.com
utils/gethostip utils/mkdiskimage mtools/syslinux linux/syslinux
extlinux/extlinux
ls: cannot access win32/syslinux.exe: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 13065 Jun 28 00:30 core/isolinux-debug.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 12421 Jun 28 00:30 core/isolinux.bin
-rwxrwxr-x 1 1026 1026 15522 Jun 28 00:30 core/pxelinux.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026   408 Jun 27 01:52 dos/copybs.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 21420 Jun 28 00:32 dos/syslinux.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 54621 Jun 28 00:32 extlinux/extlinux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1026 58492 Jun 28 00:32 gpxe/gpxelinux.0
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root 1026 24084 Jun 28 00:32 linux/syslinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026   424 Jun 28 00:30 mbr/gptmbr.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026   404 Jun 28 00:30 mbr/mbr.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026 20044 Jun 28 00:30 memdisk/memdisk
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026  5400 Jun 28 00:30 memdump/memdump.com
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026 24104 Jun 28 00:32 mtools/syslinux
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026  3888 Jun 28 00:32 utils/gethostip
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 1026  8325 Jun 28 00:32 utils/mkdiskimage
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026    64 Jun 27 01:51 version.gen
-rw-rw-r-- 1 1026 1026    64 Jun 27 01:51 version.h
make[1]: [installer] Error 2 (ignored)
mkdir -m 755 -p /usr/bin
install -m 755 -c mtools/syslinux /usr/bin
mkdir -m 755 -p /sbin
install -m 755 -c extlinux/extlinux /sbin
mkdir -m 755 -p /usr/share/syslinux
install -m 644 -c core/pxelinux.0 gpxe/gpxelinux.0 core/isolinux.bin
core/isolinux-debug.bin dos/syslinux.com dos/copybs.com win32/syslinux.exe
memdisk/memdisk memdump/memdump.com mbr/mbr.bin mbr/gptmbr.bin
/usr/share/syslinux
install: cannot stat `win32/syslinux.exe': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [local-install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
make: *** [/usr/src/log_i486/04_misc/syslinux-3.70-pre26] Error 2

On the same gcc-4.2.3, binutils-2.18, nasm-0.98.39 with the instructions
from doc/distrib.txt
 make clean && make installer

cd /usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26 && make installer
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
set -e ; for i in ; do make -r -C $i all ; done
make -r installer-local
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `installer-local'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
set -e ; for i in mtools linux extlinux utils com32 sample; do make -r -C $i
all ; done
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/mtools'
gcc -Wp,-MT,syslinux.o,-MMD,.syslinux.o.d -W -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g
 -Os -I. -I.. -I../libfat -I../libinstaller -c -o syslinux.o syslinux.c
gcc -Wp,-MT,syslxmod.o,-MMD,.syslxmod.o.d -W -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g
 -Os -I. -I.. -I../libfat -I../libinstaller -c -o syslxmod.o
../libinstaller/syslxmod.c
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `bootsect_bin.o', needed by
`syslinux'.
Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26/mtools'
make[1]: *** [installer] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/syslinux-3.70-pre26'
make: *** [/usr/src/log_i486/04_misc/syslinux-3.70-pre26] Error 2

Gilles