Syslinux - Apr 2010 - Syslinux 3.86 released; Syslinux 4.00 now in beta test

Syslinux 3.86 is out; it is a bug fix release.

Syslinux 4.00, starting with Syslinux 4.00-pre38, is now officially in 
beta test.

Special thanks to Intel Corporation, my current employer, for their
support for my Syslinux work.

Changes in 3.86:
	* chain.c32: fix chainloading the MBR of a hard disk (broken
	  in 3.85).
	* mboot.c32: report the boot loader name in the information
	  structure.
	* com32: set argv[0] in a com32 module.
	* core: add a workaround for a bug in Xen HVM older than
	  version 3.3: disable halt on those platforms.
	* Fix problems where certain operations in com32 modules would
	  cause the core to believe the system was idle.
	* MEMDISK: fix MBR detection when used with a DOSEMU header or
	  an offset.
	* MEMDISK: generate the mBFT checksum correctly.

Begin3
Title:		syslinux
Version:	3.86
Entered-date:	2010-04-01

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.

		This version includes gPXE, to allow accessing network
		files via other protocols than TFTP.

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
		4579573 syslinux-3.86.tar.gz
		5572421 syslinux-3.86.zip
Platforms:	DOS or Linux to install.  Linux, perl and NASM 2.03 or
		later required to build from source.
Copying-policy: GPL, MIT
End

On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Syslinux 4.00, starting with Syslinux 4.00-pre38, is now officially in beta
> test.
I started building syslinux 4.00 test builds using my 3.x SPEC files and 
the install-all Makefile target stopped working.

----
+ /usr/bin/make install-all
INSTALLROOT=/dar/tmp/syslinux-4.00-0.pre38.el5.test-root BINDIR=/usr/bin
MANDIR=/usr/share/man SBINDIR=/sbin
/usr/bin/make -r installer-local
make[1]: Entering directory `/dar/build/syslinux-4.00-pre38'

-snip-

set -e ; for i in com32 utils dosutil ; do /usr/bin/make -r -C $i install ; done
make[1]: Entering directory `/dar/build/syslinux-4.00-pre38/com32'
set -e; for d in tools lib gpllib libutil modules mboot menu samples rosh cmenu
hdt gfxboot sysdump; do /u
sr/bin/make -C $d install; done
make[2]: Entering directory `/dar/build/syslinux-4.00-pre38/com32/tools'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
----

I would like to keep using the install-all target in the future, though.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

On 04/03/2010 04:08 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Syslinux 4.00, starting with Syslinux 4.00-pre38, is now officially in
beta
>> test.
> 
> I started building syslinux 4.00 test builds using my 3.x SPEC files and 
> the install-all Makefile target stopped working.
> 
> I would like to keep using the install-all target in the future, though.
> 
Fixed :)

	-hpa